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...f microscopy. Unveiled the nature of human anatomy and physiology. MONDINO De LUZZI (1275-1326) Italian Anatomist 55 One of the greatest human anatomists of the Renaissance. ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) Flemish-Italian Anatomist 55 Wrote his masterpiece on The Structure of the Human Body. WILLIAM HARVEY (1578-1657) English Physician 55 Published his book On t...

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...s closed. She alone would have introduced, out of busy idleness, a sort of Dutch cleanliness into a house on the con- fines of Bretagne and Normandie,... ...f the sight; others give themselves up to it in saintly adoration. Patient anatomists of human nature cannot too often enunciate the truths before whi...

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...ived, very pictur- esque; she reminded me of the female figures in certain Dutch paintings I had seen in other years at Seacombe Hall. I repaired to t... ...e those of a Low Country Madonna; many a “figure de Vierge” have I seen in Dutch pictures exactly resembling hers; there were no angles in her shape o... ...to each other, as a pair of human beings, our positions were reversed. The Dutchman (he was not Flamand, but pure Hollandais) was slow, cool, of rathe... ...ive, quicker both to plan and to practise, to conceive and to realize. The Dutchman was benevolent, the Englishman susceptible; in short our character... ... with unrestrained vivacity. My vivid words and emphatic gesture moved his Dutch calm to unwonted sensa- tion. He said he was happy—glad to have serve... ...re models of austerity, fashioned out of a little parchment and much bone. Anatomists will tell you that there is a heart in the withered old maid’s c...

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...in his imagination, glowed and quivered, darkening at the utterance of the Dutch syllables, leaving a tinge of witless envy. Dartrey—Fenellan had buri... ... the worthy attorney, whose in- nermost imp burst out periodically, like a Dutch clocksentry, to trot on his own small grounds for thinking himself of... ...of feeling: ‘Warm water, then’; and Skepsey writhed, as if in the grasp of anatomists, at being the subject of female contention or humane considerati... ...ted and then desired to receive. It hardly mattered:— considering that the Dutch Navy did really, incredible as it seems now, come sailing a good way ... ...the Tower in sympathy, wondering whether the Tower had seen those impudent Dutch a nice people at home, he had heard. Mr. Shaplow’s Jarniman might act... ...rious in her primitive licentiousness, unless we labour body and soul like Dutchmen at the dam. Here she was, and not desired, almost detested! Nature...

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...of currant, two of raisin, four pint bottles of ale, six of ginger-beer, a Dutch cheese, a heap of tarts, three sally-lunns, and four shillingsworth o... ...jolly new acquaintances have done for you.’ So we played at catch with the Dutch cheese, and after- wards bowled it for long-stopping, when, to the di... ...ing of the goose, we resolved to finish the cold re- past awaiting us. The Dutch cheese had been bowled into bits. With a portion of the mashed tarts ... ...y to my grandfather’s renewed demand to know whether any one of those High-Dutch women had got hold of me, Peterborough said: ‘Mr. Beltham, the only l... ...ad and that those who insisted on fighting should be examined by competent anatomists, “ologists” of some sort, to decide whether they have the excres...

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...mselves in the colony. ****Slavery was introduced about the year 1620 by a Dutch vessel which landed twenty negroes on the banks of the river James. S... ... city of Leyden in 1610, where they abode, being lovingly respected by the Dutch, for many years: they left it in 1620 for several reasons, the last o... ... last of which was, that their posterity would in a few generations become Dutch, and so lose their interest in the English nation; they being desirou... ...ery eye, and pithy speeches pierced each other’s heart, that sundry of the Dutch strangers that stood on the Key as spectators could not re- frain fro... ...llish beauty’s self. David and his scholars were, on the contrary, as good anatomists as they were good painters. They 533 Tocqueville wonderfully de...

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...lais’ works were reprinted when no editions were appearing in France. This Dutch transla- tion was published at Amsterdam in 1682, by J. Tenhoorn. The... ...Gallitalo (Claudius French- Italian) must certainly be a pseudonym. Only a Dutch scholar could identify the translator, and state the value to be as- ... ... the art of riding. Changing then his clothes, he rode a Naples courser, a Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fl... ...o all good fellows. With that he unscrewed his borracho (which was a great Dutch leathern bottle), and without putting in his nose drank very honestly... ...lazily, as if our tongues walked on crutches, and not lustily like Lansman Dutches. T ruly this is a good sign; there is nothing here but what is fit ... ...to the other, through those pipes, windings, and conduits which to skilful anatomists are perceivable at the end of the wonderful net where all the ar... ...th an union with all the chief and most principal parts of the body, as to anatomists is evident. Let it not here be thought strange that I should cal...

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...little saleswoman. “The gingerbread figures are all gone, and so are those Dutch wooden milkmaids, and most of our other playthings. There has been co... ...s; its low stud, its cross-beam, its chimney-piece, with the old-fashioned Dutch tiles; so that it was the emblem of a mind industriously stored with ... ...or stifling, or gurgling, or bubbling, in the region of the thorax, as the anatomists say?—or was it a pretty severe throbbing and kicking of the hear...

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...ave distinguished some words had he been acquainted with the Spanish.’ The Dutchman maintains it to have been that of a Frenchman; but we find it stat... ...en properly ridiculed as unjust and totally baseless, by all the reputable anatomists of Paris. Not that the matter might not have been as inferred, b... ... In reading the above sentence a curious apothegm of an old weather-beaten Dutch navigator comes full upon my recollec- tion. “It is as sure,” he was ...

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... ference, however, between the character of the Span- iard and that of the Dutch boer is shown, by the former never asking his guest a single question... ...le question be- yond the strictest rule of politeness, whilst the hon- est Dutchman demands where he has been, where he is going, what is his business... ... the common mole the eye is extraordinarily small but perfect, though many anatomists doubt whether it is connected with the true optic nerve; its vis...

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... e used to play at guessing historical characters at Mrs. Lemon’s, but not anatomists.” “I’ll tell you. His name was V esalius. And the only way he co... ...h. Whether from awe or pity, nobody raised the price on him. Next came two Dutch prints which Mr. Toller had been ea- ger for, and after he had secure...

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... used to play at guess ing historical characters at Mrs. Lemon’s, but not anatomists.” “I’ll tell you. His name was Vesalius. And the only way he cou... ...h. Whether from awe or pity, nobody raised the price on him. Next came two Dutch prints which Mr. Toller had been eager for, and after he had secured ...