 | Books - 1831 - 652 pages
...temporary sojournment, intending him for another and a better existence hereafter. ' Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...country, from whose bourne no traveller returns." Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 214 pages
...like a hero to his long last home. The difference in their moral qualities, and the mental superiority the Egyptian over the Turk, made all the distinction....darkened chamber, the hideous vesture of the corpse, the lugubrious visages of ' the funeral performers,' the solemn mutes who ' mimic sorrow when the heart's... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Authors, English - 1833 - 164 pages
...like a hero to his long last home. The difference in their moral qualities, and the mental superiority the Egyptian over the Turk, made all the distinction....darkened chamber, the hideous vesture of the corpse, the lugubrious visages of 'the funeral performers,' the solemn mutes who ' mimic sorrow when the heart's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 594 pages
...physical act of dying. Sir Henry Halford, after forty years' experience, says — ' Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | Henry Halford - Medicine - 1833 - 266 pages
...temporary sojournment, intending him for another and a better existence hereafter. Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.' Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 596 pages
...physical act of dying. Sir Henry Halford, after forty years' experience, says — ' Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 586 pages
...physical act of dying. Sir Henry Halford, after forty years' experience, says — ' Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality." — SOUTHEY.] (2) [" Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveller returns ! ' Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this unwillingness to die from an impatience of suffering,... | |
 | George Crabbe - Poets, English - 1834 - 358 pages
...life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality." — SOUTHEY.] (2) [" Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...have administered in the last hours of their lives, .1 have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to * the undiscovered country,... | |
 | Jasper Adams - Christian ethics - 1837 - 528 pages
...by myself, and apprized my patient of the great change he was about to undergo. Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to...undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.' I have seen those who have arrived at a fearless contemplation of the future, from faith in the doctrine... | |
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Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, I have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to " the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller... 
