The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... England there is now no mode of life healthy enough to se- cure longevity . We may roughly divide our modes of life into city life and country life ; but these have many shades and subdivisions . City life in Park Lane differs from city ...
... England there is now no mode of life healthy enough to se- cure longevity . We may roughly divide our modes of life into city life and country life ; but these have many shades and subdivisions . City life in Park Lane differs from city ...
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... England in past days , and which it would be well to revive . Had I a million , I would spend half of it on the attempt . What I mean is village life as men lived it in the village of Colonos . I imagine a certain number of people ...
... England in past days , and which it would be well to revive . Had I a million , I would spend half of it on the attempt . What I mean is village life as men lived it in the village of Colonos . I imagine a certain number of people ...
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... has come to grief in England would do well on the other side of the ocean . But for petty crimes , the larcenies of boys and girls , the small beginnings of vice , there should be provided , not a gaol , but a Modes of Life . 23.
... has come to grief in England would do well on the other side of the ocean . But for petty crimes , the larcenies of boys and girls , the small beginnings of vice , there should be provided , not a gaol , but a Modes of Life . 23.
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... England as well as in Venice ; men who were the equals of barons and the friends of kings . I will not say that there are none such now ; but they are few . Haste to grow rich and a foolish fondness for show are the tendencies which ...
... England as well as in Venice ; men who were the equals of barons and the friends of kings . I will not say that there are none such now ; but they are few . Haste to grow rich and a foolish fondness for show are the tendencies which ...
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... England than anywhere else that I know of : yet can a gentleman look at the work of a contested election in an English borough , or enter the lobby of the House of Commons , without a feeling of immeasurable disgust ? And in the House ...
... England than anywhere else that I know of : yet can a gentleman look at the work of a contested election in an English borough , or enter the lobby of the House of Commons , without a feeling of immeasurable disgust ? And in the House ...
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Página 32 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 94 - And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day — Ah ! do not we, wanderer ! await it too ? Yes, we await it! — but it still delays, And then we suffer! and amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days...