Autobiography of the Late Sir Benjamin C. BrodieLongmans, Green, and Company, 1865 - 187 pages |
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... knowledge , and find that they obtain some degree of credit , the case is altered ; and from that time , they become every day more interested in what they are about . There is no profession to which these observations are more ...
... knowledge , and find that they obtain some degree of credit , the case is altered ; and from that time , they become every day more interested in what they are about . There is no profession to which these observations are more ...
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... knowledge , not even excepting the sublime investigations of astro- nomy . When I first came as an adventurer to Lon- don , I knew as little as possible of the profession for which I was destined , and I had to grope my way in it as ...
... knowledge , not even excepting the sublime investigations of astro- nomy . When I first came as an adventurer to Lon- don , I knew as little as possible of the profession for which I was destined , and I had to grope my way in it as ...
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... knowledge , and , I have no doubt , looked for- ward to the time when it would occupy a high place among the learned societies of the metro- polis . But it was too near to the Inns of Court for this purpose . The young lawyers ...
... knowledge , and , I have no doubt , looked for- ward to the time when it would occupy a high place among the learned societies of the metro- polis . But it was too near to the Inns of Court for this purpose . The young lawyers ...
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... Knowledge , ' which last I obtained for the sum of half - a - crown at a book- stall . If I were called upon to name the author from a perusal of whose works I have derived the most advantage , I should mention Berkeley . Of course I ...
... Knowledge , ' which last I obtained for the sum of half - a - crown at a book- stall . If I were called upon to name the author from a perusal of whose works I have derived the most advantage , I should mention Berkeley . Of course I ...
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... knowledge , and , accordingly , I borrowed Benjamin Bell's ' System of Surgery ' from Mr. Wyche , one of the surgeons to the Salisbury Infirmary . found it , however , a most unreadable produc- tion ; indeed , I doubt whether it was ...
... knowledge , and , accordingly , I borrowed Benjamin Bell's ' System of Surgery ' from Mr. Wyche , one of the surgeons to the Salisbury Infirmary . found it , however , a most unreadable produc- tion ; indeed , I doubt whether it was ...
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