ISBN: 1130740684

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781130740684], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...of the measles. 501. Diet, and such information as applies equally to all eruptive diseases, we shall treat of when we conclude this branch of our medical subject. 502. GET KNOWLEDGE.--Fetch down some knowledge from the clouds, the stars, the sun, the moon, and the revolutions of all the planets. Dig, and draw up some valuable meditations from the depths of the earth; and search them through the vast oceans of water. Extract some intellectual improvement from the minerals and metals; from tho wonders of nature among the vegetables and herbs, trees and flowers. Learn some lessons from the birds and the beasts, and the meanest insects. Read the wisdom of God, and his admirable contrivance in them all: read his almighty power, his rich and various goodness, in all the works of his hands.--Dr. Watts. 503. WORDS.--Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channels through which it flows. Thus, were a spendthrift to discourse of generosity with 8 miser, a demagogue to declaim on public good to a patriot, or a bigot to define truth to a philosopher, ought we to wonder if the respective parties mutually misunderstood each other? since, on these partienlar terms, each is his own lexicographer, and prefers his own etymologies to the industry of a Skinner, the real learning of a Junius, or the assumed authority of a Johnson. 504. HUMANITY.--Humanity is, in regard to other social affections, what the first lay of colours is in respect to a picture. It is a ground on which are painted the different kinds of love, friendship, and engagement.---As the ancients held those places sacred which were blasted with lightening, we ought to pay a tender regard to th..., 5035, World, 15812171, Civilization & Culture, 3825131, Expeditions & Discoveries, 4992, Jewish, 6343224011, Religious, 16244141, Slavery & Emancipation, 15812211, Women in History, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 1130740684

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