The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... existence than the peasant - churl who ploughs and delves , eats and sleeps , unconscious of an idea ; even than the lucky aristocrat who has nothing to do save enjoy life , and who frequently finds him- self extremely bored . And often ...
... existence than the peasant - churl who ploughs and delves , eats and sleeps , unconscious of an idea ; even than the lucky aristocrat who has nothing to do save enjoy life , and who frequently finds him- self extremely bored . And often ...
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... existence than the peasant - churl who ploughs and delves , eats and sleeps , unconscious of an idea ; even than the lucky aristocrat who has nothing to do save enjoy life , and who frequently finds him- self extremely bored . And often ...
... existence than the peasant - churl who ploughs and delves , eats and sleeps , unconscious of an idea ; even than the lucky aristocrat who has nothing to do save enjoy life , and who frequently finds him- self extremely bored . And often ...
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... existence . Where we shall pass the immeasurable future is no concern of ours ; but it is our concern to know that our capacity for en- joying the future depends on our thoroughly enjoying the present . The word enjoy is the only one ...
... existence . Where we shall pass the immeasurable future is no concern of ours ; but it is our concern to know that our capacity for en- joying the future depends on our thoroughly enjoying the present . The word enjoy is the only one ...
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... existence which connects the spirit with its present material habiliment ; that connexion we have in common with innumerable other creatures . Man's first requirement is to apprehend his isolation ; to see himself as a living spirit ...
... existence which connects the spirit with its present material habiliment ; that connexion we have in common with innumerable other creatures . Man's first requirement is to apprehend his isolation ; to see himself as a living spirit ...
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... existence , there is nothing to equal sleep . It is , as the verse above indicates , a foretaste of the infinite future . We want an oneirologist . There is nothing more wondrous in the ancient Hebrew idiosyncrasy than the capa- city ...
... existence , there is nothing to equal sleep . It is , as the verse above indicates , a foretaste of the infinite future . We want an oneirologist . There is nothing more wondrous in the ancient Hebrew idiosyncrasy than the capa- city ...
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The Secret of Long Life [By E.J.M. Collins] Edward James Mortimer Collins Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
65 Cornhill Adjutant Apollo apprehended Asgill beauty birds boys brain CHAPTER Charles Kingsley charm Church classic character connexion COUNTESS VON BOTHMER crown 8vo daughter destiny dine dinner divine dreams England English enjoy faculties Felice Orsini flower French Empire girls Greek grow happiness Holme Lee Homer husband ideas indolent infinite intellectual iodine Kathie Brande KING ladies laze literature live long lobster London longevity look marriage of completion married master Matthew Arnold mean mind modern MORTIMER COLLINS NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR never noble novels oyster perfect pleasant POEMS poet poetic political port wine post 8vo Pythagoras racter Sauterne Scholar Gipsy Second Edition SECRET OF LONG sermons sleep soul spirit sunset supreme theory things Thomas Archer thought tion Tom Hood trees true verse village West India Regiment whitebait wife Windermere wine write young
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...