 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 490 pages
...Egypt, from thence travelling into Lib'ya and Persia, it at last broke like a flood upon Athens.* 4. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art;...constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks; no skill could obviate, nor any remedy dispel the infection. The instant a person was seized, he was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1821 - 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...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 - 1823 - 422 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 terrible infection. The instant a person was seized,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1824 - 328 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 ; the most robust constitutions vf re unable to withstand its attacks ; no skill could obviate, nor no remeiiv dispel the terrible... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1826 - 590 pages
...descended into Egypt ; thence 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 remedy dispel, the terrible infection. The instant a person was seized,... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1826 - 590 pages
...unable to withstand its attacks. No skill could obviate, nor 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1826 - 290 pages
...were nnable to withstand its attacks ; no skill conld obviate, nor no remedy dispel the 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 as fatal to themselves, as it was useless to... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1828 - 526 pages
...descended into Egypt ; thence 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 remedy dispel, the terrible infection. The instant a person was seized,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1830 - 480 pages
...employed to visit the sick, has also described it in a medical,t and Lucretius in a poetical way.J This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...robust constitutions were unable to withstand its attack ; and the greatest care and skill of the physicians were a feeble help to those who were infected.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...this calamity may serve for the instruction of posterity, in case the like should ever again happen. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...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... | |
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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. 
