Journal of the Sanitary Institute, Volume 18

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Page 275 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 12 - ... place, with a supply of water proper and sufficient for public and private purposes, and for those purposes or any of them may— (1.) Construct and maintain waterworks...
Page 111 - A Practical Treatise upon Warming Buildings by Hot Water, and upon Heat and Heating Appliances in general ; with an inquiry respecting Ventilation, the cause and action of Draughts in Chimneys and Flues, and the laws relating to Combustion.
Page 281 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 264 - What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?" "I don't know," said Scrooge. "Why do you doubt your senses?" "Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
Page 352 - It is not to die, or even to die of hunger, that makes a man wretched...
Page 276 - For though we Christians do continually aspire and pant after the land of promise ; yet it will be a token of God's favour towards us in our journeyings through this world's wilderness, to have our shoes and garments (I mean those of our frail bodies) little worn or impaired.
Page 464 - ... that the evils connected with such houses courts or alleys and the sanitary defects in such area cannot be effectually remedied otherwise than by an im- 20 provement scheme for the re-arrangement and reconstruction of the streets and nouses within such area or of some of such...
Page 12 - The undertakers shall provide and keep in the pipes to be laid down by them a supply of pure and wholesome water, sufficient for the domestic use of all the inhabitants of the town...
Page 260 - As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success in life is "to be a good animal," and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition to national prosperity.

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