The Hunterian Oration: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 14th of February, 1879On Dr. Hunter's work and methods. |
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... follow and could learn from his method how to make further sure advance . He did not so much shape the polished corners of the temple of science as lay those solid stones which are of such manner as not to be thrown down , and upon ...
... follow and could learn from his method how to make further sure advance . He did not so much shape the polished corners of the temple of science as lay those solid stones which are of such manner as not to be thrown down , and upon ...
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... follow him ; to follow , that is , his method , for follow him we cannot . He did what no one since his time could venture to attempt , what indeed his own re- ` searches , by widening the range of the sciences over which he travelled ...
... follow him ; to follow , that is , his method , for follow him we cannot . He did what no one since his time could venture to attempt , what indeed his own re- ` searches , by widening the range of the sciences over which he travelled ...
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... follows : " Life , then , appears to be something superadded to this peculiar modification of matter ; or this modification is so arranged that the principle of life arises out of the arrangement . " The principle , he says , can with ...
... follows : " Life , then , appears to be something superadded to this peculiar modification of matter ; or this modification is so arranged that the principle of life arises out of the arrangement . " The principle , he says , can with ...
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... follow . I see the objections that may be raised to this , and I have sufficient experience as an Examiner to know the difficulties of carrying it out ; but objections and difficulties never fail to grow on the path to im- provement ...
... follow . I see the objections that may be raised to this , and I have sufficient experience as an Examiner to know the difficulties of carrying it out ; but objections and difficulties never fail to grow on the path to im- provement ...
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