The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... Persons of powers below the aver- age were clearly designed for a servile exist- ence , and it is to be regretted for their own sakes when the caprice of destiny makes emperors of them , or peers of the realm , or justices of the quorum ...
... Persons of powers below the aver- age were clearly designed for a servile exist- ence , and it is to be regretted for their own sakes when the caprice of destiny makes emperors of them , or peers of the realm , or justices of the quorum ...
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... person must solve for himself . When the Positivist assures me that there cannot be a God , because he cannot conceive one , I admit the force of the argument so far as he is concerned . If you met with a person colour - blind , you ...
... person must solve for himself . When the Positivist assures me that there cannot be a God , because he cannot conceive one , I admit the force of the argument so far as he is concerned . If you met with a person colour - blind , you ...
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... persons of average capacity ? How is it even to be approached ? To tell an ordinary man that long life depends on ideas , is like telling a sick labourer that he must have generous food and plenty of port wine . Where am I to find ideas ...
... persons of average capacity ? How is it even to be approached ? To tell an ordinary man that long life depends on ideas , is like telling a sick labourer that he must have generous food and plenty of port wine . Where am I to find ideas ...
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... person - call him mayor , or warden , or reeve , or what you will - once every day . In treating of this diminutive Eutopia , I leave religion out of the question . I would myself build a church , and would give free permission to ...
... person - call him mayor , or warden , or reeve , or what you will - once every day . In treating of this diminutive Eutopia , I leave religion out of the question . I would myself build a church , and would give free permission to ...
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... persons not designed for each other , though they may seem to work well enough , are necessarily imperfect . The world is a loser by unsatisfactory marriages : many a man turns politician , or invents a pill , or writes a sensation ...
... persons not designed for each other , though they may seem to work well enough , are necessarily imperfect . The world is a loser by unsatisfactory marriages : many a man turns politician , or invents a pill , or writes a sensation ...
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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...