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" Christmas day a premature posthumous son was born in England of such an extremely diminutive size, and apparently of so perishable a frame, that two women who were sent to Lady Pakenham at North Witham, to bring some medicine to strengthen him, did not... "
Journal of the Statistical Society of London - Page 11
by Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1866
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The Ladies' pocket magazine

1836 - 634 pages
...diminutive size,* and seemed so perishable a frame, that two women, who were sent to Lady Pakenham's, at North Witham, to bring some medicine to strengthen...did not expect to find him alive on their return. Providence, however, had otherwise decreed ; and that frail tenement, which seemed scarcely able to...
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

David Brewster - 1831 - 328 pages
...diminutive size,* and seemed of so perishable a frame, that two women who were sent to Lady Pakenham's at North Witham, to bring' some medicine to strengthen...did not expect to find him alive on their return. Providence, however, had otherwise decreed; and that frail tenement which seemed scarcely able to imprison...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1832 - 498 pages
...that when he was born, he was so little, that they might have put him into a quart mug. -North Wilham, to bring some medicine to strengthen him, did not expect to find him alive on their return. Ir'rovidence, however, had otherwise decreed ; and that frail tenement, which seemed scarcely able...
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Select Biographies, Volume 1

268 pages
...such an extremely diminutive size, and seemed of so perishable a frame, that two women who were sent to bring some medicine to strengthen him, did not expect to find him alive on their return. Providence, however, had otherwise decreed; and that frail tenement which seemed scarcely able to imprison...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1865 - 1040 pages
...such an extremely diminutive size, and seemed of so perishable a frame, that two women who were sent to bring some medicine to strengthen him, did not expect to find him alive on their return." Sir Walter Scott, one of the most brilliant writers of modern times, was as an infant exceedingly weak...
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The Penny Mechanic, and the Chemist, Volume 2

1837 - 800 pages
...mug ; and so weakly did e appear, that the women, who wen sent a short distance for some medicine for him, did not expect to find him alive on their return. He gradually acquired strength, however, and at an early age was sent to an elementary school in lie neighbourhood....
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 26

1845 - 334 pages
...diminutive size,* and seemed of so perishable a frame, that two. women who were sent to Lady Pakenham's at North Witham, to bring some medicine to strengthen...did not expect to find him alive on their return. Providence, however, had otherwise decreed; and that frail tenement which seemed scarcely able to imprison...
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The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2

1866 - 728 pages
...diminutive tize, and apparently of so perishable a frame, that two women who were sent to Lady Fakenham, at North Witham, to bring some medicine to strengthen...Taygetus if the two women had carried him to Spartan tryera. As it was, the frail boy grew up into Newton, lived more than four-score years, and revealed...
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Giants and Dwarfs

Edward J. Wood - 1868 - 498 pages
...diminutive size, and seemed of so perishable a frame, that two women who were sent to Lady Pakenham's, at North Witham, to bring some medicine to strengthen...did not expect to find him alive on their return. Brewster states, that Sir Isaac told Mr. Conduit that he had often heard his mother say, that when...
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Health at Home: Or Hall's Family Doctor : Showing how to Invigorate and ...

William Whitty Hall - 1873 - 874 pages
...Witham, to bring some medicine to strengthen him, did not expect to find him alive on their return, lie would inevitably have been consigned to the caverns...Taygetus if the two women had carried him to Spartan triers. As it was, the frail boy grew up into Newton, lived more than fourscore years, and revealed...
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