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... fact a mineral water to all intents and purposes ; and that we may , therefore , look with as much confidence for beneficial effects from its employment , whether externally I have not mentioned another ingredient , muriate of lime ...
... fact a mineral water to all intents and purposes ; and that we may , therefore , look with as much confidence for beneficial effects from its employment , whether externally I have not mentioned another ingredient , muriate of lime ...
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... fact admit- ted on all hands . Then , if absorbed , is it likely that a fluid charged with so many distinct and powerful agents shall re- main inactive in the midst of life , and within the vortex of animal secretions , and excretions ...
... fact admit- ted on all hands . Then , if absorbed , is it likely that a fluid charged with so many distinct and powerful agents shall re- main inactive in the midst of life , and within the vortex of animal secretions , and excretions ...
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... fact , ornamented like palaces . And these , in some of the principal streets , such as Mosley and Oxford streets , Spring- gardens and Fountain - street , have taken the place of what before were the dwelling - houses of the more ...
... fact , ornamented like palaces . And these , in some of the principal streets , such as Mosley and Oxford streets , Spring- gardens and Fountain - street , have taken the place of what before were the dwelling - houses of the more ...
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... fact . “ Then , sir , " exclaimed my fair hostess ( for in that sort of character I had soon to acknowledge her ) , " you have ruined us all , by sending every one of our best English families and countrymen abroad , with your book ...
... fact . “ Then , sir , " exclaimed my fair hostess ( for in that sort of character I had soon to acknowledge her ) , " you have ruined us all , by sending every one of our best English families and countrymen abroad , with your book ...
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... fact , all is yet to be done , and the beginning is but slight . " In all her remarks , Miss , my fair hostess , was per- fectly right ; a truth of which I was not long in becoming personally convinced . For as what may really be called ...
... fact , all is yet to be done , and the beginning is but slight . " In all her remarks , Miss , my fair hostess , was per- fectly right ; a truth of which I was not long in becoming personally convinced . For as what may really be called ...
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The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Midland Spas ... Augustus Bozzi Granville No preview available - 2014 |
The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Midland Spas ... Augustus Bozzi Granville No preview available - 2014 |
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alluded appearance asylum Bath water beautiful Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton bromine building Buxton Buxton water called centre chalybeate character Cheltenham Cheltenham water church cliff Clifton climate coast Crescent disease drank drink east edifice effect England erected establishment extended favourable feet former front grains Harrogate hills houses hundred ingredients invalids iodine ladies latter Leamington Little Malvern lodging lofty London look Malvern Matlock Matlock Bath means ment miles mineral springs mineral water Montpellier morning muriate natural nearly Nottington object observed Oscott patients persons physician pint Pittville practitioner present principal promenade proprietor pump Pumproom quantity readers residence respecting road rock Royal saline salt sea-bathing sea-water season seen shillings side spot stranger sulphureted surface table d'hôte taste Teignmouth temperature Tenbury terrace tion Torquay town Tunbridge village walk watering-place whole wind Woodhall Spa
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Page 273 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 211 - And he took bread, and • gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you : This do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
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Page 283 - ... us. There is, perhaps, no one person of any considerable rate of mind who does not owe something to this matchless poet. He is the teacher of all good, — pity, generosity, true courage, love. His works alone (leaving mere science out of the question) contain, probably, more actual wisdom than the whole body of English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out
Page 284 - into little stars :" his solid masses of knowledge are meted out in morsels and proverbs ; and, thus distributed, there is scarcely a corner which he does not illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich.
Page 46 - At another part of his work on the spas of England, he says, that "the efficacy of the Buxton waters used as baths at their natural temperature is more strikingly manifested in cases of general debility, partial paralysis, and that peculiar state of weakness which is the result of rheumatic affection and repeated attacks of gout. In the latter case, indeed, Buxton has acquired a wellknown reputation.