Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The doctor, &c., vol. 6 (of 7)
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite; And all the good embrace, who know the Grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
Chapters
1. CHAPTER CLXXII.—p. 1.
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite; And all the good embrace, who know the Grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
2. CHAPTER CLXXIII.—p. 30.3. CHAPTER CLXXIV.—p. 48.THE DOCTOR INDULGES IN THE WAY OF FANTASTIC AND TYPICAL SPECULATION ON HIS OWN NAME, AND ON THE POWERS OF THE LETTER D., WHETHER AS REGARDS DEGREES AND DISTINCTIONS, GODS AND DE...
4. CHAPTER CLXXV.—p. 56.THE DOCTOR FOLLOWS UP HIS MEDITATIONS ON THE LETTER D. AND EXPECTS THAT THE READER WILL BE CONVINCED THAT IT IS A DYNAMIC LETTER, AND THAT THE HEBREWS DID NOT WITHOUT REASON CAL...
5. CHAPTER CLXXVI.—p. 66.THE DOCTOR DISCOVERS THE ANTIQUITY OF THE NAME OF DOVE FROM PERUSING JACOB BRYANT'S ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY.—CHRISTOPHER AND FERDINAND COLUMBUS.—SOMETHING ABOUT PIGEON-PIE...
6. CHAPTER CLXXVII.—p. 73.SOMETHING ON THE SCIENCE AND MYSTERY OF NUMBERS WHICH IS NOT ACCORDING TO COCKER.—REVERIES OF JEAN D'ESPAGNE, MINISTER OF THE FRENCH-REFORMED CHURCH IN WESTMINSTER, AND OF MR. J...
7. CHAPTER CLXXVIII.—p. 85.“There is no efficacy in numbers, said the wiser Philosophers; and very truly,”—saith Bishop Hacket in repeating this sentence; but he continues,—“some numbers are apt to enforc...
8. CHAPTER CLXXIX.—p. 93.THE SUBJECT OF ANAGRAMS CONTINUED; A TRUE OBSERVATION WHICH MANY FOR WANT OF OBSERVATION WILL NOT DISCOVER TO BE SUCH, VIZ., THAT THERE IS A LATENT SUPERSTITION IN THE MOST RATI...
9. CHAPTER CLXXX.—p. 101.THE DOCTOR'S IDEAS OF LUCK, CHANCE, ACCIDENT, FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE.—THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE'S DISTINCTION BETWEEN CHANCE AND FORTUNE WHEREIN NO-MEANING IS MISTAKEN FOR MEANIN...
10. CHAPTER CLXXXI.—p. 108.NO DEGREE OF UGLINESS REALLY UNFORTUNATE.—FIDUS CORNELIUS COMPARED TO A PLUCKED OSTRICH.—WILKES' CLAIM TO UGLINESS CONSIDERED AND NEGATIVED BY DR. JOHNSON, NOTWITHSTANDING HOGAR...
11. CHAPTER CLXXXII.—p. 128.12. CHAPTER CLXXXIII.—p. 133.13. CHAPTER CLXXXIV.—p. 148.In these reflections, which are of a serious, and somewhat of a melancholy cast, it is best to indulge; because it is always of use to be serious, and not unprofitable sometimes...
14. CHAPTER CLXXXV.—p. 157.I have heard, how true I know not, most physicians as they grow Greater in skill, grow less in their religion; Attributing so much to natural causes, That they have little faith...
15. CHAPTER CLXXXVI.—p. 163.16. CHAPTER CLXXXVII.—p. 174._Voilà mon conte.—Je ne sçay s'il est vray; mais, je l'ay ainsi ouy conter.—Possible que cela est faux, possible que non.—Je m'en rapporte à ce qui en est. Il ne sera pas damné...
17. CHAPTER CLXXXVIII.—p. 207.FOLLY IN PRINT, REFERRED TO, BUT (N.B.) NOT EXEMPLIFIED. THE FAIR MAID OF DONCASTER. DOUBTS CONCERNING THE AUTHENTICITY OF HER STORY. THEVENARD, AND LOVE ON A NEW FOOTING. STARS...
18. CHAPTER CLXXXIX.—p. 217.THE DOCTOR'S OPINION OF LATE HOURS. DANCING. FANATICAL OBJECTION OF THE ALBIGENSES; INJURIOUS EFFECT OF THAT OPINION WHEN TRANSMITTED TO THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS. SIR JOHN DAVIES...
19. CHAPTER CXC.—p. 229.20. CHAPTER CXCI.—p. 242.Time as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound; But the World's Time, is Time in masquerade! Their's, should I paint him, has his pinions fl...
21. CHAPTER CXCII.—p. 249.MORE OF THE DOCTOR'S PHILOSOPHY, WHICH WILL AND WILL NOT BE LIKED BY THE LADIES, AND SOME OF THE AUTHOR'S WHICH WILL AND WILL NOT BY THE GENTLEMEN. THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO C...
22. CHAPTER CXCIII.—p. 265.23. CHAPTER CXCIV.—p. 289.What shall I say? Or shall I say no more? I must go on! I'm brim-full, running o'er. But yet I'll hold, because I judge ye wise; And few words unto such may well suffice. But mu...
24. CHAPTER CXCV.—p. 300.25. CHAPTER CXCVI.—p. 305.26. CHAPTER CXCVII.—p. 322.I find by experience that Writing is like Building, wherein the undertaker, to supply some defect, or serve some convenience which at first he foresaw not, is usually forced to...
27. CHAPTER CXCVIII.—p. 335.PETER HOPKINS' VIEWS OF ASTROLOGY. HIS SKILL IN CHIROMANCY, PALMISTRY, OR MANUAL DIVINATION WISELY TEMPERED.—SPANISH PROVERB AND SONNET BY BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA.—TIPPO...
28. CHAPTER CXCIX.—p. 347.29. CHAPTER CC.—p. 355.No man is so foolish, but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no other counsel but his own.
30. CHAPTER CLXXII.O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite; And all the good embrace, who know the Grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
31. CHAPTER CLXXIII.The substance of Asgill's argument has been given in his own words, but by thus abstracting and condensing it his peculiar manner is lost. This though it consisted more perhaps...
32. CHAPTER CLXXIV.THE DOCTOR INDULGES IN THE WAY OF FANTASTIC AND TYPICAL SPECULATION ON HIS OWN NAME, AND ON THE POWERS OF THE LETTER D., WHETHER AS REGARDS DEGREES AND DISTINCTIONS, GODS AND DE...
33. letter D? there he hath Dim, Dusky, Drear, Dark, Damp, Dank, Dismal,Would we sum up the virtues and praise of a perfect Woman, how should we do it but by saying that she was devout in religion, decorous in conduct, domestic in habits, dextrous i...
34. CHAPTER CLXXV.THE DOCTOR FOLLOWS UP HIS MEDITATIONS ON THE LETTER D. AND EXPECTS THAT THE READER WILL BE CONVINCED THAT IT IS A DYNAMIC LETTER, AND THAT THE HEBREWS DID NOT WITHOUT REASON CAL...
35. CHAPTER CLXXVI.THE DOCTOR DISCOVERS THE ANTIQUITY OF THE NAME OF DOVE FROM PERUSING JACOB BRYANT'S ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY.—CHRISTOPHER AND FERDINAND COLUMBUS.—SOMETHING ABOUT PIGEON-PIE...
36. CHAPTER CLXXVII.SOMETHING ON THE SCIENCE AND MYSTERY OF NUMBERS WHICH IS NOT ACCORDING TO COCKER.—REVERIES OF JEAN D'ESPAGNE, MINISTER OF THE FRENCH-REFORMED CHURCH IN WESTMINSTER, AND OF MR. J...
37. CHAPTER CLXXX.THE DOCTOR'S IDEAS OF LUCK, CHANCE, ACCIDENT, FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE.—THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE'S DISTINCTION BETWEEN CHANCE AND FORTUNE WHEREIN NO-MEANING IS MISTAKEN FOR MEANIN...
38. CHAPTER CLXXXI.NO DEGREE OF UGLINESS REALLY UNFORTUNATE.—FIDUS CORNELIUS COMPARED TO A PLUCKED OSTRICH.—WILKES' CLAIM TO UGLINESS CONSIDERED AND NEGATIVED BY DR. JOHNSON, NOTWITHSTANDING HOGAR...
39. CHAPTER CLXXXII.Some Dr. Moreton is said to have advanced this extraordinary opinion in a treatise upon the beauty of the human structure, that had the calf of the leg been providentially set b...
40. CHAPTER CLXXXIII.Montagne takes an uncomfortable view of old age. _Il me semble_, he says, _qu'en la vieillesse, nos ames sont subjectes à des maladies et imperfections plus importunes qu'en la...
41. CHAPTER CLXXXIV.In these reflections, which are of a serious, and somewhat of a melancholy cast, it is best to indulge; because it is always of use to be serious, and not unprofitable sometimes...
42. CHAPTER CLXXXV.I have heard, how true I know not, most physicians as they grow Greater in skill, grow less in their religion; Attributing so much to natural causes, That they have little faith...
43. CHAPTER CLXXXVI.In Leone Hebreo's Dialogi de Amore, one of the interlocutors says, “_Vediamo che gli huomini naturalmente desiano di mai non morire; lagual cosa è impossibile, manifesta, e senz...
44. CHAPTER CLXXXVII._Voilà, mon conte.—Je ne sçay s'il est vray; mais, je l'ay ainsi ouy conter.—Possible que cela est faux, possible que non.—Je m'en rapporte à ce qui en est. Il ne sera pas damné...
45. iii. 7, the Editions of this translation have been commonly known byI ought to be grateful to the Anti-Jacobin Review. It assists in teaching me my duty to my neighbour, and enabling me to live in charity with all men. For I might perhaps think...
46. CHAPTER CLXXXVIII.FOLLY IN PRINT, REFERRED TO, BUT (N.B.) NOT EXEMPLIFIED. THE FAIR MAID OF DONCASTER. DOUBTS CONCERNING THE AUTHENTICITY OF HER STORY. THEVENARD AND LOVE ON A NEW FOOTING. STARS...
47. CHAPTER CLXXXIX.THE DOCTOR'S OPINION OF LATE HOURS. DANCING. FANATICAL OBJECTION OF THE ALBIGENSES; INJURIOUS EFFECT OF THAT OPINION WHEN TRANSMITTED TO THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS. SIR JOHN DAVIES...
48. CHAPTER CXC.The Methodist Preachers in the first Conference (that is Convocation or Yearly Meeting) after Mr. Wesley's death, past a law for the public over which their authority extends, o...
49. CHAPTER CXCI.Time as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound; But the World's Time, is Time in masquerade! Their's, should I paint him, has his pinions fl...
50. CHAPTER CXCII.MORE OF THE DOCTOR'S PHILOSOPHY, WHICH WILL AND WILL NOT BE LIKED BY THE LADIES, AND SOME OF THE AUTHOR'S WHICH WILL AND WILL NOT BY THE GENTLEMEN. THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO C...
51. CHAPTER CXCIII.Thou wast informed, gentle Reader, in the third Volume and at the two hundred and sixth page of this much-hereafter-to-be-esteemed Opus, that a _Tattle de Moy_ was a new-fashion...
52. CHAPTER CXCIV.What shall I say? Or shall I say no more? I must go on! I'm brim-full, running o'er. But yet I'll hold, because I judge ye wise; And few words unto such may well suffice. But mu...
53. CHAPTER CXCV.Master Mace has another lesson which he calls Hab-Nab; it “has neither fugue, nor very good form,” he says, “yet a humour, although none of the best;” and his “story of the mann...
54. CHAPTER CXCVI.Little more is known of Thomas Mace than can be gathered from his book. By a good portrait of him in his sixty-third year, it appears that he was born in 1613, and by his arms t...
55. CHAPTER CXCVII.I find by experience that Writing is like Building, wherein the undertaker, to supply some defect, or serve some convenience which at first he foresaw not, is usually forced to...
56. CHAPTER CXCVIII.PETER HOPKINS' VIEWS OF ASTROLOGY. HIS SKILL IN CHIROMANCY, PALMISTRY, OR MANUAL DIVINATION WISELY TEMPERED.—SPANISH PROVERB AND SONNET BY BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA.—TIPPO...
57. CHAPTER CXCIX.There have been great and good horses whose merits have been recorded in history and in immortal song as they well deserved to be. Who has not heard of Bucephalus? of whom Pulte...
58. CHAPTER CC.The Oysters also have their King, according to Pliny. Theirs seems to be a sort of patriarchical monarchy, the King, or peradventure the Queen, Oyster being distinguished by its...