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... frequent among the former , were they not counteracted by those habits of cleanliness and locomotion which distin- guish them . Their frequent ablutions , their roomy houses , their travelling carriages , and the greater purity of the.
... frequent among the former , were they not counteracted by those habits of cleanliness and locomotion which distin- guish them . Their frequent ablutions , their roomy houses , their travelling carriages , and the greater purity of the.
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... frequent active exercise in the open air of the suburbs of their places of abode . Among such persons it is that he hopes to reap the fruit of his labour . They will meet with nothing in the following pages but what is very plain in ...
... frequent active exercise in the open air of the suburbs of their places of abode . Among such persons it is that he hopes to reap the fruit of his labour . They will meet with nothing in the following pages but what is very plain in ...
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... frequently betray a total ignorance of the structure and organization of the human body , the soundness of which can alone give value to every other branch of knowledge . Either disease and infirmity are artificially cre- ated , or they ...
... frequently betray a total ignorance of the structure and organization of the human body , the soundness of which can alone give value to every other branch of knowledge . Either disease and infirmity are artificially cre- ated , or they ...
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... frequently affects our bodily welfare , concerning which it sanctions and enforces practices of the most baneful nature , it is necessary that I should caution my readers against an injurious submission to its arbitrary dictates ...
... frequently affects our bodily welfare , concerning which it sanctions and enforces practices of the most baneful nature , it is necessary that I should caution my readers against an injurious submission to its arbitrary dictates ...
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... of retaining health , though guilty of acts of intemperance and excess almost every day of their lives . The depraving effect of sensual habits is strikingly exemplified in the disposition which young men frequently evince to 30 DICTATES ...
... of retaining health , though guilty of acts of intemperance and excess almost every day of their lives . The depraving effect of sensual habits is strikingly exemplified in the disposition which young men frequently evince to 30 DICTATES ...
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الصفحة 128 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
الصفحة 87 - Adam, and submit. But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust? There is, said Michael, if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight...
الصفحة 92 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
الصفحة 4 - Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write ; but error is a scribbled one, from which we must first erase.
الصفحة 133 - Father William replied, I remember'd that youth would fly fast, And abused not my health and my vigour at first, That I never might need them at last. You are old, Father William...
الصفحة 65 - Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep "Can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wilderd, and tossing through distemper'd dreams?
الصفحة 92 - The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast The flowers, unsown, in fields and meadows reigned ; And western winds immortal spring maintained.
الصفحة 73 - Behold the labourer of the glebe, who toils In dust, in rain, in cold and sultry skies ! Save but the grain from mildews and the flood, Nought anxious he what sickly stars ascend. He knows no laws by Esculapius given; He studies none. Yet him nor midnight fogs Infest, nor those envenom'd shafts that fly When rabid Sirius fires th
الصفحة 77 - With dim mortality. It is not air That from a thousand lungs reeks back to thine, Sated with exhalations rank and fell, The spoil of dunghills, and the putrid thaw Of nature...