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Página 82 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety?
Página 144 - No careful observer of his actions or candid reader of his writings, can hesitate for a moment to admit, that he was a very extraordinary man, — one whose name will descend to posterity as the exclusive excogitator and founder of an original system of medicine, as ingenious as many that preceded it, and...
Página 148 - the file of every apothecary would furnish a volume of instances, where the ingredients are fighting together in the dark, or at least, are so adverse to each other, as to constitute a most incongruous and chaotic mass.
Página 5 - ... Brackett, Chairman of the Committee on Vegetables, read the Annual Report of that Committee. Henry L. Clapp, of the Committee on School Gardens and Children's Herbariums, read the Annual Report of that Committee. A supplementary report was postponed to the next meeting. These three reports were severally accepted, and referred to the Committee on Publication. A vote of thanks to Waldo 0. Ross for his gift to the Library of forty-seven volumes of " Nature " was unanimously passed. Benjamin M....
Página 11 - The Auditing Committee reported that they had examined the treasurer's accounts and found them correct. Report adopted.
Página 201 - To be or not to be: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
Página 130 - York city, offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : — Resolved, That the thanks of the...
Página 146 - First, that in a large proportion of the cases treated by allopathic physicians, the disease is cured by nature, and not by them. Second, that in a lesser but still not a small proportion, the disease is cured by nature in spite of them ; in other words, their interference retarding instead of assisting the cure.
Página 10 - John G. Barker, Chairman of the Committee on Gardens, reported the awards made by that Committee for the year 1890. The report was accepted and referred to the Committee on Publication, and it was voted that further time be granted the Garden Commitee to complete their report. The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, reported a recommendation that the Society make the following appropriations for the year 1891 : For the Committee on Window Gardening, this sum to cover all...

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