 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation...performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured ; but, where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual.... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation...performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured ; but where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree, in the suffering part, wae plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree in the suffering1 part was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered... | |
 | Botany - 1830 - 634 pages
...pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a procès«, ibe poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree WRS plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. Oil the Flcbtur, an area near the church, lakiv... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation...performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured ; but where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation...and carefully swathed up. * If the parts coalesced * Among the popular superstitions of Britain trees have always held a conspicuous place. There is hardly... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation...and carefully swathed up. * If the parts coalesced * Among the popular superstitions of Britain trees have always held a conspicuous place. There is hardly... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation...performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured ; but where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. *... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1836 - 398 pages
...rowan tree, was applied to & tree of nearly similar form. Which nation has been, in this case, the arid soldered together, as usually fell out where the feat...performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured ; but where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having... | |
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... that in former times they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children stripped naked were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that by such a process, the... 
