A Jesuit of some reputation, Father Clain, published in Manila in 1712 a book entitled “ Remedios fáciles para diferentes enfermedades? ”
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera
Ud. algunos donde el indio constituye las dos terceras partes de la población; otros donde el negro predomina en igual proporción; y por fin, países donde el indio y el negro son totalmente o casi desconocidos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
[3935] Meditari secum oportet quo pacto adversam aerumnam ferat, Paricla, damna, exilia peregre rediens semper cogitet, aut filii peccatum, aut uxoris mortem, aut morbum filiae, communia esse haec: fieri posse, ut ne quid animo sit novum .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
shrub growing along streams and in secondary forests, the leaves and branches of which are used as fish poison: Derris elliptica .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Too well they act the Prophet’s fatal Part, Denouncing Evil with a zealous Heart; And each, like Jonas, is displeas’d if God Repent His Anger, or withhold His Rod.
— from Poems by George Crabbe
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— from The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
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— from Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology by Mary Tenney Healy
On examination, I found her afflicted with atrophic catarrh, chronic constipation and anal ulceration, from which she had suffered for seven years, with but little intermission from pain during each day of that entire period.
— from Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison
Una cum brevi, sed quoad fieri potuit, dilucida earundem et
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn
(W. A. P.) 1 Ambactus is explained by Festus (Paulus Diaconus ex Festo, ed.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The fruit is strongly purgative, and this action is not due to the oil but to a peculiar resin so active that 3 fruits produce drastic effects.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera
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