The Medical World, Volume 38

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Roy Jackson., 1920
 

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Page 222 - Men. God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands: Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who have opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Page 42 - plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history In a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes
Page 199 - Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity
Page 180 - they are increased that use them. If the gatherer gathers too much, nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest ; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. The waves of the sea do not more
Page 65 - Where services are paid for with something other than money, the fair market value of the thing taken in payment is the amount to be included as income. If the services were rendered at a stipulated price, in the absence of evidence to the
Page 49 - say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.—RUSKIN.
Page 266 - so. Howe'er It be It seems to me 'tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, and
Page 199 - A word warm from the heart enriches me. I surrender at discretion. How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life! These are the touches that reanimate my heavy soul, and give it eyes to pierce the dark of nature. I find, where I thought myself poor, there was I
Page 129 - SURGERY : GENERAL AND OPERATIVE. By J. Chalmers DaCosta, MD, Samuel D. Gross Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. Eighth Edition, Revised, Enlarged and Reset. Octavo of 1697 pages, with 1177 illustrations, some of them in colors. Philadelphia and London: WB Saunders Company, 1919.
Page 43 - The knowledge that a man can use is the only real knowledge; the only knowledge that has life and growth in it and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.—FROUDE.

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