The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... knows nothing of nature . Look from your window some March morning of east wind - Eurus , ab urendo - and you may tell the quarter whence it blows by the 4 tortured movement of the trees . They struggle with their What is Life ? ΙΙ.
... knows nothing of nature . Look from your window some March morning of east wind - Eurus , ab urendo - and you may tell the quarter whence it blows by the 4 tortured movement of the trees . They struggle with their What is Life ? ΙΙ.
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... look down upon it ; so the amusement of the place would be open and general . Such an arrangement would stimulate society and discourage secresy . Only the nobler natures , which are rare , can be trusted to take independent and ...
... look down upon it ; so the amusement of the place would be open and general . Such an arrangement would stimulate society and discourage secresy . Only the nobler natures , which are rare , can be trusted to take independent and ...
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... looks like some marvellous aquatic bird that has come down to astonish the swans . I am not certain , by the way , that a lake would not be prefer- able to a river , if there were only a lake to be got for the purpose . When I close my ...
... looks like some marvellous aquatic bird that has come down to astonish the swans . I am not certain , by the way , that a lake would not be prefer- able to a river , if there were only a lake to be got for the purpose . When I close my ...
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... look upon the movement with indif- ference or contempt , aware that woman's highest destiny is to marry - to be merged in her husband , and complete his character . It is my firm faith that for every man there is one woman , a fit ...
... look upon the movement with indif- ference or contempt , aware that woman's highest destiny is to marry - to be merged in her husband , and complete his character . It is my firm faith that for every man there is one woman , a fit ...
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... look through a hundred modern novels , you will generally find that their heroes are boys just fresh from college , and that their heroines are children of eighteen or nineteen . Hence it is clear that among the large section of the ...
... look through a hundred modern novels , you will generally find that their heroes are boys just fresh from college , and that their heroines are children of eighteen or nineteen . Hence it is clear that among the large section of the ...
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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
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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...