Health Made Easy for the People; Or, Physical Training, to Make Their Lives, in this World, Long and Happy

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Darton & Clark ... J. Wright & Company, 1845 - 200 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 146 - You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "And life must be hastening away; You are cheerful and love to converse upon death: Now tell me the reason, I pray.
الصفحة 18 - Should any lodge between our teeth, that generally gives us a little uneasiness, and we endeavour to pick it out. 29. But the surfaces of the teeth, employed for grinding the food (five above and five below, on each side) are very uneven, that they may be the better suited for bruising it. Small grains of food are liable to remain in these irregular places, on the surface ; or if the gums are not healthy, some will lodge between them and the teeth. In all cases, these bits of food ought to be removed,...
الصفحة 65 - ADVANTAGES OF CLEANLINESS.— Health and strength cannot be long continued unless the skin — all the skin — is washed frequently with a sponge or other means. Every morning is best; after which the skin should be rubbed very well with a rough cloth. This is the most certain way of preventing cold, and a little substitute for exercise, as it brings blood to the surface, and causes it to circulate well through the fine capillary vessels. Labour produces this circulation naturally. The insensible...
الصفحة xi - Let there be light — let there be a firmament — let the dry land appear — let the earth bring forth grass, the herb, the tree — let the waters bring forth the moving creature that hath life — let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind — these are the terms in which the principal acts are described. The additional expressions — God made the firmament...
الصفحة 178 - ARITHMETIC OF ANNUITIES AND LIFE ASSURANCE; or, Compound Interest Simplified: explaining the Value of Annuities, certain or contingent, on One or Two Lives, and the Values of Assurances in Single and Annual Payments ; and comprehending the Values of Leases, Pensions, Freeholds, and Reversionary Sums, in possession or expectation, immediate, deferred, or temporary. Illustrated with practical and familiar Examples.
الصفحة 146 - You are old, Father William, the young man cried, The few locks which are left you are grey ; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, Now tell me the reason I pray. In the days of my youth...
الصفحة 65 - This is the most certain way of preventing colds, and a little substitute for exercise, as it brings blood to the surface, and causes it to circulate well through the fine capillary vessels. Labour produces this circulation naturally. The insensible perspiration cannot escape well, if the skin is not clean, as the pores get choked up. It is said that in health, about half the aliment we take passes out through the skin.
الصفحة 130 - May each one of us have the aspiration to express the wish that " we may die the death of the righteous and our last end be like his.
الصفحة 179 - Persons assured for the whole term of Life, for .£100 and upwards, in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, will be entitled at the end of every...
الصفحة 179 - Ireland respectively, will be entitled, at the end of every seventh year, to participate in the surplus Premiums, to be then ascertained by actual valuation. The amount of such surplus Premiums, when so ascertained, may be applied, at the option of the Person assured, in either of the three following ways, viz. 1st.

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