The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... dinner , home- brewed ale , sound low - priced wines of France and Germany ; should contain library , reading - room , smoking - room , and all other club requirements , fitted in a plain and simple , but by no means vulgar style . This ...
... dinner , home- brewed ale , sound low - priced wines of France and Germany ; should contain library , reading - room , smoking - room , and all other club requirements , fitted in a plain and simple , but by no means vulgar style . This ...
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... dinner , fall asleep after it , and be as dull as a hog or a log till it is time to breakfast and go to business again . To a man of this sort a wife is merely an apparatus for exhibiting his wealth by wearing fine dresses , riding in ...
... dinner , fall asleep after it , and be as dull as a hog or a log till it is time to breakfast and go to business again . To a man of this sort a wife is merely an apparatus for exhibiting his wealth by wearing fine dresses , riding in ...
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... dinner . This morning , after writing a couple of articles , I took a stroll on my lawn before going to bed . It was half - past three . The nightingales were sing- ing vespers the starlings were seeking breakfast . Some labourers were ...
... dinner . This morning , after writing a couple of articles , I took a stroll on my lawn before going to bed . It was half - past three . The nightingales were sing- ing vespers the starlings were seeking breakfast . Some labourers were ...
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... thing better than either ; and coena , which is dinner . As to the hours , you are your own master . From eleven to twelve I re- commend for prandium - and it should be a meal of cold meats , prawns and lobsters , fruit F 2 Aristology . 67.
... thing better than either ; and coena , which is dinner . As to the hours , you are your own master . From eleven to twelve I re- commend for prandium - and it should be a meal of cold meats , prawns and lobsters , fruit F 2 Aristology . 67.
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... dinner there is much to be said , and when all is said , much must be left to the man who wants to dine . First : the hour . For an average , writing as I am for men who use their nights wisely , sleeping six or seven hours , I take ...
... dinner there is much to be said , and when all is said , much must be left to the man who wants to dine . First : the hour . For an average , writing as I am for men who use their nights wisely , sleeping six or seven hours , I take ...
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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...