Life in the sick-room

THE WORKS OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER; the Text formed from a new collation of the early Editions. With Notes and a biographical Memoir. By the Rev. A. DYCE. In eleven volumes 8vo....

Because the good is indissolubly connected with ideas--with the unseen realities which are indestructible. This is true, even of those pleasures of sense which of themselves wou...

“There is something extremely absurd and ridiculous,” says the holy Hartley, “in supposing a person to be perpetually feasting his own mind with, and dwelling upon, the praises...

But then, there must not be too much sea. The strongest eyes and nerves could not support the glare and oppressive vastness of an unrelieved expanse of waters. I was aware of th...

Nothing is more impossible to represent in words, even to one’s self in meditative moments, than what it is to lie on the verge of life and watch, with nothing to do but to thin...

But at this rate, occupying this scope, I shall never have done. I might write on for every day of my life, and be no nearer the end of our speculations. Let what I have said go...

Nothing need be said here of short, sharp, fatal illness. Most of us know that short, sharp illnesses, not fatal, have not enlightened us much in regard to death and its appropr...

If there are hours when, through pain and weakness, we would fain decline existence altogether, as a sick and wearied child frets at sunshine and music, and would rather sleep i...

Thus does my experience moralize for both parties. If, in ordinary life, there is no peace of mind for those whose happiness depends on the good opinion of everybody, much less...

I will not dwell on the reflection. A glimpse into this hell ought to suffice, (though we to whom imagery comes unbidden, and cannot be banished at will, have to bear much more...

There is yet a worse direction taken by this sensitiveness--both morally and in experience worse. Though our observation of life encourages hope, on the whole, to a boundless ex...

The words “natural recompenses” remind me of another gain conferred on us by our condition--scarcely separable, perhaps, from those I have mentioned--from the extinction of all...

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