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Page 12 - Leishman A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY, including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal State. By WILLIAM LEISHMAN, MD, Regius Professor of Midwifery in the University of Glasgow ; Physician to the University Lying-in Hospital; Fellow and late Vice-President of the Obstetrical Society of London, etc.
Page 204 - But all through life I see a Cross, Where sons of God yield up their breath : There is no gain except by loss, There is no life except by death, There is no vision but by Faith, Nor glory but by bearing shame, Nor justice but by taking blame; And that Eternal Passion saith, " Be emptied of glory and right and name.
Page 14 - Nichol. — HANNIBAL, A HISTORICAL DRAMA. By JOHN NICHOL, BA Oxon., Regius Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow. Extra fcap. 8vo.
Page 71 - And her physician had prescribed for her Jellies and wines and cheerful Literature. The book on the Apocalypse was writ By her chosen pastor, and she took the novel With the dry sherry, and the pills prescribed. A gorgeous, pious, comfortable life Of misery she lived ; and all the sins Of all her house, and all the nation's sins, And all shortcomings of the Church and State, And all the sins of all the world beside, Bore as her special cross, confessing them Vicariously day by day, and then She comforted...
Page 105 - A regiment to the belching cannon's mouth If wisely ordered when ; or might have headed The cheery hunt across the stubble field, Taking the fences gallantly, nor turning From the wide brook to seek the safer ford. But being held in London half the year, And with no taste for politics or fashion, Or such religion as he came across, He took to Science, made experiments, Bought many nice and costly instruments, Heard lectures, and believed he understood Beetle-browed Science wrestling with the fact...
Page 7 - A book -rich in the results of speculative study, broad in its intellectual grasp, and happy in its original suggestiveness. To Dr. Caird we are indebted for a subtle and masterly presentation of Hegel's philosophy in its solution of the problem of religion.
Page 12 - It is the best English work on the subject." — Lancet. " We should counsel the student by all means to procure Dr. Leishman's work.