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... give and grant unto you , or any three or more of you , full power to call before you , or any three or more of you , such persons as you shall judge necessary , by whom you may be the better informed on the subjects herein submitted ...
... give and grant unto you , or any three or more of you , full power to call before you , or any three or more of you , such persons as you shall judge necessary , by whom you may be the better informed on the subjects herein submitted ...
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... give that , but , of course , I cannot in honour give the names of men who wish their names to be private . If you like , I will apply to those men also . 4443. Will you have the goodness to proceed with your statement ? —This is one of ...
... give that , but , of course , I cannot in honour give the names of men who wish their names to be private . If you like , I will apply to those men also . 4443. Will you have the goodness to proceed with your statement ? —This is one of ...
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... give that , but , of course , I cannot in honour give the names of men who wish their names to be private . If you like , I will apply to those men also . " 6 4443. Will you have the goodness to proceed with your statement ? —This is ...
... give that , but , of course , I cannot in honour give the names of men who wish their names to be private . If you like , I will apply to those men also . " 6 4443. Will you have the goodness to proceed with your statement ? —This is ...
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... give " the particulars only of one case , though the two were somewhat similar . The first animal ( p . 54 ) " lived three days after the operation . In the second , " I removed the whole of the right hemisphere , just " " anterior to ...
... give " the particulars only of one case , though the two were somewhat similar . The first animal ( p . 54 ) " lived three days after the operation . In the second , " I removed the whole of the right hemisphere , just " " anterior to ...
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... give extracts from a paper " written by me in vol . iii . of the West Riding " Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports , ' edited by Dr. " Crichton Browne . With your views as to the justifi- " " ableness of the experiments there recorded I do ...
... give extracts from a paper " written by me in vol . iii . of the West Riding " Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports , ' edited by Dr. " Crichton Browne . With your views as to the justifi- " " ableness of the experiments there recorded I do ...
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Page 99 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me...
Page 36 - Commission; and also to call for, have access to and examine all such books, documents, registers and records as may afford you the fullest information on the subject and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all other lawful ways and means whatsoever...
Page 76 - ... which gives to their union life, memory, affection, intelligence, and fidelity, is evanescent. Every atom in the human frame, as well as in that of animals, undergoes a periodical change by continual waste and renovation ; the abode is changed, not its inhabitant. If animals have no future, the existence of many is most wretched ; multitudes are starved, cruelly beaten, and loaded during life; many die under a barbarous vivisection. I cannot believe that any creature was created for uncompensated...
Page 77 - Yes, he is a very good man; only I'm sorry he has his hands so much imbrued in blood. — "What, he cuts up rats?" — Ay, and dogs too ! — [With what emphasis and concern he spoke it.] — "Indeed, he commits most of these barbarities, with the thought of being of use to man : but how do we know, that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above as dogs, for our curiosity, or even for some use to us?" — P. "I used to carry it too far; I thought they had reason as well as we.
Page 46 - The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike To love and friendship both, that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own.
Page 55 - M. to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance ; and thereto I give thee my troth.