There he is supposed to have a mission to convict men of self-conceit; in the Theaetetus he has assigned to him by God the functions of a man-midwife, who delivers men of their thoughts, and under this character he is present throughout the dialogue. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then saddle a horse, quoth my father, and do you go directly for Dr. Slop, the man-midwife, with all our services, — and let him know your mistress is fallen into labour — and that I desire he will return with you with all speed. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For all these reasons, private and publick, put together, — my father was for having the man-midwife by all means, — my mother, by no means. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A physician, a surgeon, and man-midwife, generously undertook to attend the sick gratis. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
Presbyterian and man-midwife, which sect and profession he had dropt for ❋ Various (N/A)
General Monk, the man-midwife, who so skilfully assisted at that great Birth of Time, the Restoration, was made a duke, and Cromwell's army, so long the force behind the supreme power, was paid its arrears and (two regiments excepted) disbanded. ❋ Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 (1905)
_As she goes to listen at the door, it opens, and the man-midwife enters. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Beyond the door, attended by her maid and a man-midwife, Ruth shut her teeth upon her throes. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Perhaps the term should be translated the man-midwife, for it was rather unusual for men to have much knowledge of this subject. ❋ James Joseph Walsh (1903)
` ` IT was now my fortune to be born of a German princess; but a man-midwife, pulling my head off in delivering my mother, put a speedy end to my princely life. ❋ Unknown (1900)
"I declare as my conscientious conviction founded on long experience and reflection, that if there were not a single physician, surgeon, man-midwife, chemist, apothecary, druggist nor drug on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality than now prevail." ❋ Martha Meir Allen (1890)
The society of Calcutta assemble to see what progress we are making; and we produce as a sample a boy who repeats some blackguard doggerel of George Colman's, about a fat gentleman who was put to bed over an oven, and about a man-midwife who was called out of his bed by a drunken man at night. ❋ George Otto Trevelyan (1883)
In the person of Dr. Slop, the grotesque man-midwife, who was to have assisted, but missed assisting, at Tristram's entry into the world, the good people of York were not slow to recognize the physical peculiarities and professional antecedents of Dr. Burton, the local accoucheur, whom Archdeacon Sterne had arrested as a Jacobite. ❋ Traill, H D (1882)
Bachiler, he says, "hath been a man-midwife to bring forth more monsters begotten by the Devil and born of the Sectaries within the last three years than ever were brought into the light in England by all the former licensers, the Bishops and their Chaplains, for fourscore years." ❋ David Masson (1864)
Bachiler, he says, “hath been a man-midwife to bring forth more monsters begotten by the Devil and born of the Sectaries within the last three years than ever were brought into the light in England by all the former licensers, the Bishops and their Chaplains, for fourscore years.” ❋ Masson, David, 1822-1907 (1859)
Dame ---- s, an irreproachable spinster of forty, discovers that of Mr. Probe, man-midwife, appended to her own. ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)
In this dilemma, the man-midwife calling first, and afterwards the physician, were both consulted by the ladies; when the former (a Tory) advised to send the money after them, whilst the latter (a Whig) thought it better to keep it till called for; consequently, never being called for in their hasty retreat, the money was not paid. ❋ John Roby (1821)
I accordingly went for Dr. Poignand, physician and man-midwife to the same hospital, who arrived between three and four hours after the birth of the child. ❋ Godwin, William, 1756-1836 (1798)
Dr. Poignand, physician and man-midwife to the same hospital, who arrived between three and four hours after the birth of the child. ❋ William Godwin (1796)
