Medical Library and Historical Journal, Volume 3

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Page 184 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Page 308 - Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 199 - The works touching books are two ; first libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed...
Page 201 - To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Page 293 - Tis not a melancholy Utinam of my own, but the desires of better heads, that there were a general Synod, not to unite the incompatible difference of religion, but for the benefit of learning to reduce it as it lay at first, in a few and solid authors, and to condemn to the fire those swarms and millions of rhapsodies, begotten only to distract and abuse the weaker judgments of scholars and to maintain the trade and mystery of typographers.
Page 293 - I have heard some with deep sighs lament the lost lines of Cicero; others with as many groans deplore the combustion of the library of Alexandria. For my own part, I think there be too many in the world...
Page 308 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad...
Page 83 - God and the Doctor we alike adore, But only when in danger, not before ; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.
Page 308 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
Page 228 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.

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