The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... wine . For coal is fossil sunshine , drunken in by forests that perished myriads of years ago ; and wine is liquid sunshine , caught in grape - globes that grew on the margin of Rhine or Marne or Charente . Matthew Arnold says : We ...
... wine . For coal is fossil sunshine , drunken in by forests that perished myriads of years ago ; and wine is liquid sunshine , caught in grape - globes that grew on the margin of Rhine or Marne or Charente . Matthew Arnold says : We ...
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... wine . Where am I to find ideas ? ' is the obvious rejoinder . They don't grow in this part of the country . Now although I write pri- marily for men ( and women ) who have ideas , and who therefore ought to live long , and whose long ...
... wine . Where am I to find ideas ? ' is the obvious rejoinder . They don't grow in this part of the country . Now although I write pri- marily for men ( and women ) who have ideas , and who therefore ought to live long , and whose long ...
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... 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 being properly arranged , I do not know that ...
... 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 being properly arranged , I do not know that ...
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... proper rent for suitable dwellings , and to eat strong meat and drink ale or wine , and to live lives suitable to their vocations . The Skimpoles and Micawbers may go to the pauper villages which an 34 The Secret of Long Life .
... proper rent for suitable dwellings , and to eat strong meat and drink ale or wine , and to live lives suitable to their vocations . The Skimpoles and Micawbers may go to the pauper villages which an 34 The Secret of Long Life .
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... hock close at hand . If I drank green tea or laudanum instead of hock , I should not offend my critics by writing of wine and ale . But , then , what would my books be like ? Again ; the Athenæum ( March 25 , 1871 ) Politics . 61.
... hock close at hand . If I drank green tea or laudanum instead of hock , I should not offend my critics by writing of wine and ale . But , then , what would my books be like ? Again ; the Athenæum ( March 25 , 1871 ) Politics . 61.
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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...