The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... common with innumerable other creatures . Man's first requirement is to apprehend his isolation ; to see himself as a living spirit , with incalculable capacities , and without any superior save the Divinity . His next is to feel the ...
... common with innumerable other creatures . Man's first requirement is to apprehend his isolation ; to see himself as a living spirit , with incalculable capacities , and without any superior save the Divinity . His next is to feel the ...
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... common , where the elders might lounge on summer afternoons , while the boys played cricket , and the girls croquet , and the infants skipped and danced , and a pair or two of lovers roamed and whispered . I would build my village , so ...
... common , where the elders might lounge on summer afternoons , while the boys played cricket , and the girls croquet , and the infants skipped and danced , and a pair or two of lovers roamed and whispered . I would build my village , so ...
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Edward James Mortimer Collins. common ; the church , the schools , the clubs , the travellers ' rest , the village hall , and other public edifices , should look down upon it ; so the amusement of the place would be open and general ...
Edward James Mortimer Collins. common ; the church , the schools , the clubs , the travellers ' rest , the village hall , and other public edifices , should look down upon it ; so the amusement of the place would be open and general ...
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... common sense of ordinary English- men . Mr. Disraeli , in one of his incomparably brilliant books , has stated his opinion that English politics are too parochial . I agree with him that they are parochial - but I think it eminently ...
... common sense of ordinary English- men . Mr. Disraeli , in one of his incomparably brilliant books , has stated his opinion that English politics are too parochial . I agree with him that they are parochial - but I think it eminently ...
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... common world is alive ; you may be wakeful and brilliant in the short hours of the night , when there are no witnesses of your vagaries save the silent stars above you . Living such a life , I venture to think that you should take two ...
... common world is alive ; you may be wakeful and brilliant in the short hours of the night , when there are no witnesses of your vagaries save the silent stars above you . Living such a life , I venture to think that you should take two ...
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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...