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Madame Marini protested that she hoped not, she even thought not, though none could avoid it at this season in this climate, and she turned to Sir Purcell to petition for any receipts he might have in his possession, specifics for warding off the frightful affliction of households in England. "I have now twenty," said Madame, and throwing up her eyes; "I have tried all! oh! so many lozenge!"
Henrietta was instantly all attention. "Yesterday the famous butterwoman who dwells at Dupe Piatra came to open her soul to me in a very difficult matter. This woman, as the whole country-side knows, is a famous quack and a preparer of such specifics as it is unlawful for one man to give to another. Formerly she was visited by multitudes of people suffering from every sort of ill especially girls.
To be the specimen of her scrutinizing gaze was once an ossified aspect of his daily existence. Once the specifics of what it was like to be her son had been forgotten for a generalized feeling of revulsion; but now that he was here the forgetting was being forgotten and the revulsion was replaced by the need to adapt and thrive within his circumstances.
Oh, blushless! The next instant he was in conversation with Laetitia, questioning her upon a dejected droop of her eyelashes. "I am, I think," said she, "constitutionally melancholy." He murmured to her: "I believe in the existence of specifics, and not far to seek, for all our ailments except those we bear at the hands of others." She did not dissent.
It is true that the history of past centuries ought to be the instructress of the present; but not in the vulgar sense, as if one could simply by turning over the leaves discover the conjunctures of the present in the records of the past, and collect from these the symptoms for a political diagnosis and the specifics for a prescription; it is instructive only so far as the observation of older forms of culture reveals the organic conditions of civilization generally the fundamental forces everywhere alike, and the manner of their combination everywhere different and leads and encourages men, not to unreflecting imitation, but to independent reproduction.
From universal remedies or panaceas, to nostrums and specifics, such, for instance, as pretend to cure the same disease in every patient, is easy and natural. With the latter also, impositions of a dangerous tendency are often practised. It may be asked how far they are practicably admissible, and in what cases they are wholly unavailing? The answer is not difficult.
Warfare is an art, not a science; it knows no unvarying laws, and possesses neither specifics nor panaceas. Whatever the reason, the decision was reached to attempt simultaneously the relief of Kimberley and of Ladysmith. It is with the former, which also was first in order of time, that we now have immediately to do.
"`Not a bit of it, responded Harry, also grinning at the thought of these well-known specifics. `I would rather it should turn out saltpetre and sulphur. Then we could make lots of gunpowder. "Harry was a great shot as we have seen and one of his fears was, that our stock of powder would run out. "`Do not wish for that, Harry, said his mother. `Gunpowder we can do very well without.
Hadn't that faded memory of a mother once told him that thunder was a diamond falling from some goddess when struggling in the heavens against a diminutive monster? he could not remember any of the specifics; hadn't some uncle in the United States of America, the country of his birth, once told him that thunder was the sound of Thai monkeys angrily tossing coconuts from coconut trees in the hope of getting to the bananas?
My belief is, they would stone the Holy Father himself, if they could find a good excuse for it; and they are persuaded that you are a necromancer, who is trying to raise the pestilence by selling secret medicines and I am told your specifics have in truth an evil smell." "It is false!" burst out the doctor, as Nello moved away his razor; "it is false!
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