Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America for the Years ..., Volume 12

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Page 2 - All persons so elected shall hold office for the term of one year, and until their successors are chosen.
Page 220 - There is a mystery (with whom relation Durst never meddle) in the soul of state ; Which hath an operation more divine, Than breath, or pen, can give expressure to: All the commerce that you have had with Troy.,.
Page 52 - You have a very beautiful house here. An old house, but a fine one. It is almost a sacred thing to keep an old thing from dying, sir ; for whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely and of good report, are invariably found close to, and, sometimes, intimately enclosed in the life and being of ages that have passed, and in the life of men and women who have gone away before us.
Page 51 - A regular medical education furnishes the only presumptive evidence of professional abilities and acquirements, and ought to be the only acknowledged right of an individual to the exercise and honors of his profession.
Page 219 - Each of us is only the footing up of a double column of figures that goes back to the first pair.
Page 174 - For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head : and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.
Page 403 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And- these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Page 56 - And while the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return.
Page 219 - There are people who think that everything may be done, if the doer, be he educator or physician, be only called " in season." No doubt, — but in season would often be a hundred or two years before the child was born ; and people never send so early as that.
Page 179 - If an honest, and, I may truly affirm, a laborious zeal for the public service, has given me any weight in Your esteem, let me exhort and conjure You never to suffer an invasion of Your political constitution, however minute the instance may appear, to pass by, without a determined, persevering resistance. One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine.

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