The alternative: disease and premature death, or health and long lifeHighley, 1838 - 80 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 56
... active exercise , if not the sole , is certainly the principal means of securing this inestimable blessing . Through deficiency of exercise all the functions languish , and the results become reversed . The next thing to be considered ...
... active exercise , if not the sole , is certainly the principal means of securing this inestimable blessing . Through deficiency of exercise all the functions languish , and the results become reversed . The next thing to be considered ...
الصفحة 60
... active exercise in the open air , as much as possible , and were proverbial for early rising . Their ability to do this , at very advanced ages , may , at first sight , appear extraordinary ; but a little inquiry into the means of ...
... active exercise in the open air , as much as possible , and were proverbial for early rising . Their ability to do this , at very advanced ages , may , at first sight , appear extraordinary ; but a little inquiry into the means of ...
الصفحة 61
... active exercise , but that passive exercise is better adapted to their weak frames . It must be admitted , that , by compliance with the luxurious and indolent habits of modern life , women have brought themselves into a weak state ...
... active exercise , but that passive exercise is better adapted to their weak frames . It must be admitted , that , by compliance with the luxurious and indolent habits of modern life , women have brought themselves into a weak state ...
الصفحة 64
... active exercise in the open air ; and , as a stimulus , I may here observe , that no instance can be found of an idler having attained to a re- markably great age . One of the greatest perils arising from the neglect of uniform exercise ...
... active exercise in the open air ; and , as a stimulus , I may here observe , that no instance can be found of an idler having attained to a re- markably great age . One of the greatest perils arising from the neglect of uniform exercise ...
الصفحة 65
... active exercise in the open air , requires ampler meals than the indolent or sedentary . Stimulating sauces may indeed create an artificial appetite for delicacies ; but labour and exercise are the only F natural stimulants , * and ...
... active exercise in the open air , requires ampler meals than the indolent or sedentary . Stimulating sauces may indeed create an artificial appetite for delicacies ; but labour and exercise are the only F natural stimulants , * and ...
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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...