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... living as tending to produce disease and shorten life , and who points out the path ordained by nature as the only road to health and prolonged existence , lays himself open to no small share of reproach , not because his accusations on ...
... living as tending to produce disease and shorten life , and who points out the path ordained by nature as the only road to health and prolonged existence , lays himself open to no small share of reproach , not because his accusations on ...
الصفحة 3
... living which , though in themselves erroneous , and in their practice dan- gerous , have , from the influence of example , be- come almost universal . It is true that from the same source another and another set of rules may be derived ...
... living which , though in themselves erroneous , and in their practice dan- gerous , have , from the influence of example , be- come almost universal . It is true that from the same source another and another set of rules may be derived ...
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... living obviously calculated to frustrate him in the pursuit of the very object at which he professes to aim . The most important precept of morality is , to do injury to no one ; and , as self - preservation is the first law of nature ...
... living obviously calculated to frustrate him in the pursuit of the very object at which he professes to aim . The most important precept of morality is , to do injury to no one ; and , as self - preservation is the first law of nature ...
الصفحة 7
... living are not injurious ; and disease and infirmities , with their certain consequence , brevity of life , are the result of circumstances be- yond our knowledge and control , and not the effects of the erroneous habits of men . I hope ...
... living are not injurious ; and disease and infirmities , with their certain consequence , brevity of life , are the result of circumstances be- yond our knowledge and control , and not the effects of the erroneous habits of men . I hope ...
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... living , the search becomes most difficult , most delusive , and most certain of disap- pointment . All the books that can be printed , all the argu- ments that can be adduced , and all the arts that can be devised , if they do not ...
... living , the search becomes most difficult , most delusive , and most certain of disap- pointment . All the books that can be printed , all the argu- ments that can be adduced , and all the arts that can be devised , if they do not ...
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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...