The alternative: disease and premature death, or health and long lifeHighley, 1838 - 80 pages |
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... soon enfeebled by improper indulgence ; and any endeavour to compensate for this seeming imperfection in their nature invariably proves detrimental , by fatiguing the faculties and diminishing sensibility . It is an undeniable fact that ...
... soon enfeebled by improper indulgence ; and any endeavour to compensate for this seeming imperfection in their nature invariably proves detrimental , by fatiguing the faculties and diminishing sensibility . It is an undeniable fact that ...
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... soon made hotter and more unwhole- some still by the respiration and perspiration of the steaming occupants , who take into their lungs what has been received and rejected innumerable times by the persons around them . After stewing ...
... soon made hotter and more unwhole- some still by the respiration and perspiration of the steaming occupants , who take into their lungs what has been received and rejected innumerable times by the persons around them . After stewing ...
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... " an Israelite indeed , " includes , during the greater part of the year , many hours of brilliant sunshine ) , and that they invariably retire you soon after midnight ! Exercise , according to their notions AND LUXURY . 47.
... " an Israelite indeed , " includes , during the greater part of the year , many hours of brilliant sunshine ) , and that they invariably retire you soon after midnight ! Exercise , according to their notions AND LUXURY . 47.
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Joel Pinney. soon after midnight ! Exercise , according to their notions , consists either in a shaking in a suffocat- ing omnibus , or in a jolt upon horseback , or in a leisurely walk into the City and back , with a little rhubarb or ...
Joel Pinney. soon after midnight ! Exercise , according to their notions , consists either in a shaking in a suffocat- ing omnibus , or in a jolt upon horseback , or in a leisurely walk into the City and back , with a little rhubarb or ...
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... soon as the faithful monitor within cries " Hold - enough ! " Every mouthful that is afterwards taken is not only superfluous , but injurious . The immoderate use of wine , even though not amounting to intoxication , is the cause of ...
... soon as the faithful monitor within cries " Hold - enough ! " Every mouthful that is afterwards taken is not only superfluous , but injurious . The immoderate use of wine , even though not amounting to intoxication , is the cause of ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 4 - Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write ; but error is a scribbled one, from which we must first erase.
Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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...