Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body... Retrospective Review - Page 12edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
| Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...says, "from that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris,...as they could find them. We have not yet found them all,"20 but each one of us may pick up a fragment, perhaps two, and in moments when mortality weighs... | |
| Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...search that Isis made for the mangled hody of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limh hy limh, still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Ixirds and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming: he shall hring together every... | |
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