The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... village shop , where the old women talk scandal of their neigh- bours ; the county paper , with its rigmarole paragraphs about the most trivial events ; are the chief sources of rustic ideas . Who could live long on such mental food ...
... village shop , where the old women talk scandal of their neigh- bours ; the county paper , with its rigmarole paragraphs about the most trivial events ; are the chief sources of rustic ideas . Who could live long on such mental food ...
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... village life as men lived it in the village of Colonos . I imagine a certain number of people , from one thousand to five , living in well - built dwellings suited to their position , each dwelling having its ap- propriate ground — from ...
... village life as men lived it in the village of Colonos . I imagine a certain number of people , from one thousand to five , living in well - built dwellings suited to their position , each dwelling having its ap- propriate ground — from ...
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... village parlia- ment , elected by universal suffrage ( female as well as male ) , might also form a court of arbitration , to determine the disputes that unluckily must arise wherever human beings dwell together . As to doctors ...
... village parlia- ment , elected by universal suffrage ( female as well as male ) , might also form a court of arbitration , to determine the disputes that unluckily must arise wherever human beings dwell together . As to doctors ...
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... village at least two clubs - one for the gentle , the other for the simple . The former needs no description ; it would , of course , be organised on the principle of the best London clubs . The latter should supply my tradesfolk and ...
... village at least two clubs - one for the gentle , the other for the simple . The former needs no description ; it would , of course , be organised on the principle of the best London clubs . The latter should supply my tradesfolk and ...
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... village Eton - where Greek and Latin and mathematics should be soundly taught , and cricket and rowing and football strenuously practised . Therewith must be connected middle and lower schools , for commercial education and the three ...
... village Eton - where Greek and Latin and mathematics should be soundly taught , and cricket and rowing and football strenuously practised . Therewith must be connected middle and lower schools , for commercial education and the three ...
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Author beauty becomes better body boys brain brings CHAPTER character Church classic clear common completion course crown 8vo daughter desire developed dine dinner divine dreams Edition England English enjoy epigram existence faculties fear flower future girls give Greek grow hand happiness Holme House human husband ideas imagine immortal infinite ITALY keep KING ladies late light literature live live long London longevity look marriage married master mean mind nature never noble opinion ordinary pass perfect persons POEMS poet poetic political present readers reason Second sense sermons sleep soul spirit story summer tell theory things thought tion trees true village wife wine wise write young
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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...