The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... clearly designed for a servile exist- ence , and it is to be regretted for their own sakes when the caprice of destiny makes emperors of them , or peers of the realm , or justices of the quorum . But at such freaks of fortune wise men ...
... clearly designed for a servile exist- ence , and it is to be regretted for their own sakes when the caprice of destiny makes emperors of them , or peers of the realm , or justices of the quorum . But at such freaks of fortune wise men ...
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... clear that what , for brevity's sake , I may call the mar- riage of completion is the only true marriage ; and it may easily be understood that such a marriage is conducive to longevity . It is unhappily rare , for many reasons ...
... clear that what , for brevity's sake , I may call the mar- riage of completion is the only true marriage ; and it may easily be understood that such a marriage is conducive to longevity . It is unhappily rare , for many reasons ...
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... persons of marriageable age . With health of mind and body , this ought to bring perfect happiness ; and clearly it is in the highest degree conducive to health of mind and body . What a man wants in his wife is 44 The Secret of Long Life .
... persons of marriageable age . With health of mind and body , this ought to bring perfect happiness ; and clearly it is in the highest degree conducive to health of mind and body . What a man wants in his wife is 44 The Secret of Long Life .
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... to claim for its own intuitions superiority over their hard - won experience . The reason of all this is clear enough : because we have E contracted the span of life , we bring our children The Marriage of Completion . 49.
... to claim for its own intuitions superiority over their hard - won experience . The reason of all this is clear enough : because we have E contracted the span of life , we bring our children The Marriage of Completion . 49.
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... clearly proved at the Eglinton tournament in 1839. The aristo- cratic babies who played their parts in that absurdity found that the armour of their an- cestors was too small for them . One of those infants , by the way , was Prince ...
... clearly proved at the Eglinton tournament in 1839. The aristo- cratic babies who played their parts in that absurdity found that the armour of their an- cestors was too small for them . One of those infants , by the way , was Prince ...
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The Secret of Long Life [By E.J.M. Collins] Edward James Mortimer Collins Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Pasajes populares
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...