The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... course Mr. Sylvester's mathematicians support my argument : and so do great lawyers like Lyndhurst and Lord St. Leonards ( may he be a centenarian ) : and so do all men who occupy their minds , in whatsoever department of thought ...
... course Mr. Sylvester's mathematicians support my argument : and so do great lawyers like Lyndhurst and Lord St. Leonards ( may he be a centenarian ) : and so do all men who occupy their minds , in whatsoever department of thought ...
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... course , be crime in the ideal village -black sheep and families of scamps : such is humanity . Well , the incurable vagabonds I would assist to emigrate ; many a man who has come to grief in England would do well on the other side of ...
... course , be crime in the ideal village -black sheep and families of scamps : such is humanity . Well , the incurable vagabonds I would assist to emigrate ; many a man who has come to grief in England would do well on the other side of ...
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... course , be organised on the principle of the best London clubs . The latter should supply my tradesfolk and peasantry with all they wanted in the way of refreshment at cost price ; should give them a cheap substantial dinner , home ...
... course , be organised on the principle of the best London clubs . The latter should supply my tradesfolk and peasantry with all they wanted in the way of refreshment at cost price ; should give them a cheap substantial dinner , home ...
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... course ; these are boyhood's necessities . As to the girls , I think the canoe suits them perfectly . Row- ing is rather too strenuous an effort for them but a light canoe may be lazily : paddled , and a pretty girl seated in one ...
... course ; these are boyhood's necessities . As to the girls , I think the canoe suits them perfectly . Row- ing is rather too strenuous an effort for them but a light canoe may be lazily : paddled , and a pretty girl seated in one ...
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... course no gentleman would enter on such a connexion . The boy who marries is just as unfortunate as the girl . Every year probably reveals to both that they have entirely mistaken one another's characters . At thirty our youth is a ...
... course no gentleman would enter on such a connexion . The boy who marries is just as unfortunate as the girl . Every year probably reveals to both that they have entirely mistaken one another's characters . At thirty our youth is a ...
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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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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...