 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1805 - 350 pages
...into Egypt, from thence travelled into Lybia and Persia, and at last broke like a flood upon Athens. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art;...constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks; no skill could obviate, nor no remedy dispel, the terrible infection. The instant a person was seized,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1806 - 444 pages
...into Egypt, from thence travelled into Libya and Persia, and at last broke like a flood upon Athens. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks ; no skill could obviate , nor no remedy dispel the infection. The instant a person was seized , he... | |
 | George Horne - English essays - 1808 - 320 pages
...THE most tremendous circumstance recorded of that most dreadful scourge the plague of Athens is, that the instant a person was seized he was struck with despair, which quite disabled him from attempting his cure. DEVOTION. l.HE, who seldom thinks of heaven, is not likely to get thither... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...into Egypt, from thence trarelled into Libya and Persia, and at last broke like a flood upon Athens. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks ; no skill could obviate, nor no remedy dispel the infection. The instant a person was seized, he was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1812 - 454 pages
...into Egypt, from thence travelled into Libya and Persia, and at last broke like a flood upon Athens. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art ; the most robust constitutions wqre unable to withstand its attacks ; no skill could obviate, nor no remedy dispel, the terrible infection.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1814 - 578 pages
...into Egypt, from thence travelled into Libya and Persia, and 'at last broke like a flood upon Athens. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art,...constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks, no skill could obviate, and no remedy dispel the terrible infection. The instant a per-. «m was seized,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1815 - 544 pages
...happen. || Hippocrates, who was employed to visit the sick, has also described it in a medical, and ф Lucretius in a poetical way. This pestilence baffled...seized, he was struck with despair, which quite disabled him from attempting a cure. The assistance that was given them was ineffectual, and proved mortal to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1818 - 346 pages
...unable to withstand its attacks : no ski!! could obviate, nor no remedy dispel, the terrible infection. The instant a person was seized, he was struck with despair, which quite disabled him from attempting a cure. The humanity of friends was fatal to themselves, as it was ineffectual... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...most tremendous circumstance recorded of that most dreadful scourge, the plague of Athens, is, that the instant a person was seized he was struck with despair, which quite disabled him from attempting his cure. • DEVOTION. 1. He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 386 pages
...employed to visit the sick, has also described it as a physician, and d Lucretius as a poet. Tiiis pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art ; the...seized, he was struck with despair, which quite disabled him from attempting a cure. The assistance that was given them was ineffectual, f 5i nal i5vflpti apii'.'i... | |
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Libya and Persia, and at last broke like a flood upon Athens. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art ; the most robust constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks; no skill could obviate, nor no remedy dispel, the terrible infection. 
