 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...once a man ; and of some little name ; but of EJ worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest : for by the immediate hand of an avenging GOD, his very thinkiir; substance has, for more than seven years, been continually wasut; away, till it is wholly... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 440 pages
...once a man ; and of some little name ; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging...ruins, remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense that so much as one single one, perfect or imperfect, whole or diminished, ever did appear... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 276 pages
...once a man ; and of some little name ; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging...ruins, remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense that so much as one single one, perfect or imperfect, whole or diminished, ever did appear... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 384 pages
...and of some little name ; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifesl; for by the immediate hand of an avenging GOD, his...ruins, remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense that, so much as one single one, perfect or imperfect, whole or diminished, ever did appear... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 492 pages
...dedication to Queen Caroline, asking for her prayers in his singular case. He was ' once a man,' but ' his very thinking substance has for more than seven...wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him.' This was suppressed at the time by his friends, but afterwards published by Hawkesworth in the ' Adventurer,'... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 380 pages
...was once a man; and of some little name; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest; for by the immediate hand of an avenging...ruins, remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense that so much as one single one, perfect or imperfect, whole or diminished, ever did appear... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 380 pages
...was once a man; and of some little name; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest; for by the immediate hand of an avenging...ruins, remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense that so much as one single one, perfect or imperfect, whole or diminished, ever did appear... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 420 pages
...was once a man; and of some little name; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest; for by the immediate hand of an avenging...ruins, remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense that so much as one single one, perfect or imperfect, whole or diminished, ever did appear... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 414 pages
...was once a man; and of some little name; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest; for by the immediate hand of an avenging...ruins, remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense that so much as one single one, perfect or imperfect, whole or diminished, ever did appear... | |
 | John H. King - 1893 - 344 pages
...more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it has not utterly come to nothing. None, no, not the least...ruins remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense. (Gentleman's Mag. 1762, p. 454.) A similar case is recorded in the American Journal of Insanity.... | |
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He was once a man, and of some little name, but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away,... 
