 Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, I have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to " the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller...  The Infirmities of Genius - Sivu 107tekijä(t) Richard Robert Madden - 1833Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1831 - 652 sivua
...temporary sojournment, intending him for another and a better existence hereafter. ' Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...country, from whose bourne no traveller returns." Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 sivua
...in extremity, will lay him down to die, and with what pertinacity the Turk will cling to life—with what abject importunity he will solicit the physician...not for the adventitious terrors which are given to death—for all the frightful paraphernalia of the darkened chamber, the hideous vesture of the corpse,... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 sivua
...hero to bis long last home. The difference in their moral qualities, and the mental superiority of the Egyptian over the Turk, made all the distinction....darkened chamber, the hideous vesture of the corpse, and the lugubrious visages of the funeral performers,' the solemn mutes who ' mimic sorrow when the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 596 sivua
...physical act of dying. Sir Henry Halford, after forty years' experience, says — ' Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 594 sivua
...physical act of dying. Sir Henry Halford, after forty years' experience, says — ' Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 586 sivua
...physical act of dying. Sir Henry Halford, after forty years' experience, says — ' Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | Henry Halford - 1833 - 266 sivua
...temporary sojournment, intending him for another and a better existence hereafter. Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.' Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 sivua
...life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality." — SOUTHEY.] (2) [" Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveller returns ! ' Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this unwillingness to die from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 sivua
...life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality." — SOUTHEY.] (2) [" Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...have administered in the last hours of their lives, .1 have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to * the undiscovered country,... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1837 - 528 sivua
...by myself, and apprized my patient of the great change he was about to undergo. Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.' I have seen those who have arrived at a fearless contemplation of the future, from faith in the doctrine... | |
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