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Nor did either Caesar or Antony blame my inaction in the quarrels between them; but, on the contrary, they both seemed to respect me the more for the neutrality I observed. My obligations to the one and alliance with the other made it improper for me to act against either, and my constant tenor of life had procured me an exemption from all civil wars by a kind of prescription. Brutus.
Puffery is the "able editor's" invariable prescription, no matter whether the patient be a moss-grown town, a broken-down political roue the victim of early indiscretions or a Cheap-John merchant suffering the first paroxysms of financial dissolution.
That "acknowledged right of birth" to which a famous historian attributes "the peaceful successions" of modern Europe, was too little respected in those ages, in many countries of Christendom and had no settled prescription in its favour among the Irish.
A man so well known in the gay world could not be supposed to effect such a transformation without being observed; and therefore, in order to anticipate the censure and ridicule of those who might be tempted to make themselves merry at his expense, he, on his arrival at the wells, repaired to the shop of an apothecary, and calling for pen, ink, and paper, wrote a prescription, which he desired might be immediately made up.
You want to make me out something terrible because Dr. Heyman once taught me how to help myself a little when I'm nearly wild with neuralgia. Those were doctor's orders. I'll kill myself before I let you make me out something terrible. I never even knew what it was before the doctor gave his prescription. I'll kill you hear kill myself."
"In my opinion, this is the moment to make an end of her. Vigor, and more and more vigor! that's my prescription!" he cried. So saying, the cardinal returned to the king's chamber, followed by the duke. The priest went straight to the queen-mother.
I should not have mentioned this well-known remedy, as it has long been superseded by other nostrums, were it not that this maritime prescription has been the origin of two modern improvements in the medical catalogue one is the stomach pump, evidently borrowed from this simple engine; the other is the very successful prescription now in vogue, to those who are weak in the digestive organs, to eat fat bacon for breakfast, which I have no doubt was suggested to Doctor Vance, from what he had been eye-witness to on board of a man-of-war.
Alfred Hardie presents his compliments to Miss Dodd, and begs leave to inform her that he has, by the merest accident, intercepted the enclosed prescription.
He passed one or two formal gibes upon the fixed attention which the page paid to the unknown, and upon his own jealousy; adding, however, that if both were to be presented to the patient at once, he had little doubt she would think the younger man the sounder prescription.
"It makes me almost cry," answers the assistant telegraph editor. "Fires? Yes, I've enough for a display head." "We must go and look after Corkey if he isn't here to-morrow night," observes the night editor. "He's bad off." A little after midnight there is a loud rattle at the door of the drug store. The prescription clerk at last opens the door. "Is Chalmers home yet?" The clerk is angry.
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