The Preaching of Knox Before the Lords of the Congregation: Engraving in Line from a Picture by Sir David Wilkie

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1853 - 10 стор.
 

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Сторінка 18 - Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
Сторінка 6 - As for the fear of danger that may come to me," continued he, " let no man be solicitous ; for my life is in the custody of Him whose glory I seek. I desire the hand nor weapon of no man to defend me. I only crave audience ; which, if it be denied here unto me at this time, I must seek where I may have it.
Сторінка 10 - That reputation he did, however, ultimately enjoy ; about twenty-five years after the publication of his system, it was received in all the universities of the world — and Hobbes has observed, that Harvey was the only man perhaps who ever lived to see his own doctrine established in his lifetime.
Сторінка 10 - ... sentenced to the dungeons of the conservative Inquisition. This was in Italy ; but in England — and here we come nearer home — Harvey was accustomed to say, that, after the publication of his book on the circulation of the blood, — one of the epochs of modern discovery, — "he fell mightily in his practice, and it was believed by the vulgar that he was crack-brained, and all the physicians were against his opinion.
Сторінка 16 - Newton afterwards rendered to optics and astronomy, by his theories of light and gravitation, Harvey conferred upon anatomy and medicine, by his true doctrine of the circulation of the blood.
Сторінка 13 - A pure taste, indeed, is of the first order of national benefits; it is a talisman which adorns every thing that it touches, and which touches every thing within the magic circle of its sway : — there is nothing too high for its influence, or too low for its attention; and while it mounts on wings of fire with the poet and the painter, " to the highest heaven of invention," it descends with humble diligence to the aid of the mechanic at the anvil and the loom.
Сторінка 7 - ... making observations of strange trees and plants, earths, &c., and sometimes like to be lost. So that my Lord Ambassador would be really angry with him, for there was not only danger of thieves but also of wild beasts.
Сторінка 9 - Blood," in which these lines occur : "There didst thou trace the blood, and first behold What dreams mistaken sages coined of old. For till thy Pegasus the fountain brake, The crimson blood was but a crimson lake, Which first from thee did tyde and motion gaine, And veins became its channel, not its chaine. With Drake and Ca'endish hence thy bays are curl'd, Famed circulator of the lesser world.

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