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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... interest and occupation , and has , so , worthily and happily , filled that interlude between life's activity and death's advent which is apt to be spent in restless search after rest , and in fruitless efforts to satisfy the long ...
... interest and occupation , and has , so , worthily and happily , filled that interlude between life's activity and death's advent which is apt to be spent in restless search after rest , and in fruitless efforts to satisfy the long ...
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... interest in , and are happy in , their work , and therefore make pro- gress in it , whereas those of the other do not ? Both teachers may fail to recognise the cause of this difference in their pupils . But the pupils have no THE ...
... interest in , and are happy in , their work , and therefore make pro- gress in it , whereas those of the other do not ? Both teachers may fail to recognise the cause of this difference in their pupils . But the pupils have no THE ...
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... interest in his work . It is a tendency which all who are experienced in Examinations and their influence cannot fail to have recognised and to regret ; and they must feel the diffi- culty of avoiding it , especially in those ...
... interest in his work . It is a tendency which all who are experienced in Examinations and their influence cannot fail to have recognised and to regret ; and they must feel the diffi- culty of avoiding it , especially in those ...
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... interest which properly attaches to them and which renders them attractive and seals them on the memory . I mean an Anatomy , not limited to the technical details of the structure of the body , but THE HUNTERIAN ORATION . 29.
... interest which properly attaches to them and which renders them attractive and seals them on the memory . I mean an Anatomy , not limited to the technical details of the structure of the body , but THE HUNTERIAN ORATION . 29.
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... interest and stimulate the energies of the most unwilling student ; and the facts thus learned would be far better retained ; for the mind , like the itching palm , holds tightly that which it loved to seize . Haplessly , under present ...
... interest and stimulate the energies of the most unwilling student ; and the facts thus learned would be far better retained ; for the mind , like the itching palm , holds tightly that which it loved to seize . Haplessly , under present ...
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