Extracts from various authors, and fragments of table-talk, afternoons at L*********.

Hussey E. L. (Edward Law), 1816-1899.

Date:: 1873

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now could have remedied ? — Could remedial agents, or man's interference, have raised the dead, — thrown instantaneously the vigor, of youth, and the health and strength of manhood, into the limbs of the cripple,—given power to the paralytic, — steadiness to the palsied, — and calmness to the possessed ; — or have cooled the fevered, — given, by a word, sight to the bhnd, speech to the dumb, and hearing to the deaf? — If, without the special interference of Providence, these individuals could have been cured, then their cases were not miracles, and can not now be performed but by similar means. — SiR W. R. Wilde, Aural Surgery. There are many men who are unwilling to listen to half-a-dozen sentences, while there is scarcely any fallacy which they will not believe if it is told them in one. — T. G. FONNEREAU, Diary of a Dutiful Son; Quarterly Review, vol. Ixxxvi. It may be long, indeed, before any amount of ability or zeal on the part of the Professors in those departments, [Physical Science, Medicine] can elevate Oxford to the same eminence in Science which it possesses in Literature ; but at any rate we need not despair of disseminating such an amount of general information on these subjects, as should prevent the occurrence amongst us of that blind credulity in the most extrava-

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