A Sketch of the Life and Writings of Robert Knox, the Anatomist

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Macmillan and Company, 1870 - 420 Seiten

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Seite 151 - His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Seite 226 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music : / Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences...
Seite 247 - This science — whose object it is to explain in a connected chain the phenomena of the living material world ; to connect the history of living plants and animals with those which now lie entombed in the strata of the crust of the globe ; to explain the mysterious metamorphoses which occur in the growth of animals and plants from their embryonic state to their maturity of growth and final decay ; to trace a plan of creation, and to guess at that plan — these are the objects of transcendental...
Seite 295 - Men are of various races ; call them species, if you will ; call them permanent varieties, it matters not. The fact, the simple fact, remains just as it was ; men are of different races. Now, the object of these lectures is to show that in human history race is everything.
Seite 404 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Seite 107 - All our anatomists incurred a most unjust, and a very alarming, though not an unnatural odium; Dr. Knox in particular, against whom not only the anger of the populace, but the condemnation of more intelligent persons, was specially directed. But tried in reference to the invariable, and the necessary practice of the profession, our anatomists hag!"—"the gudgeons swallow it!
Seite 75 - Is thought to be a night when witches, devils, and other mischief-making beings, are all abroad on their baneful, midnight errands; particularly those aerial people, the fairies, are said on that night to hold a grand anniversary.
Seite 55 - Edinburgh, being convened in their hall, and taking to. their consideration that of late there has been a violation of the sepulchres in the Grey Friars church-yard, by some, who most unchristianly have been stealing, or at least attempting to carry away, the bodies of the dead out of their graves...
Seite 78 - Up the close and doun the stair, But and ben wi' Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef — also manifested their appreciation of his position in more practical form.
Seite 87 - ... duty to state their opinion fully. It appears in evidence, that Dr. Knox had formed and expressed the opinion, long prior to any dealings with Burke and Hare, that a considerable supply of subjects for anatomical purposes might be procured by purchase, and without any crime, from the relations or connections of deceased persons in the lowest ranks of society. In forming this opinion, whether mistaken or not, the Committee cannot consider Dr. Knox to have been culpable. They believe...

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