Precepts for the Preservation of Health, Life and Happiness: Medical and Moral

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Whittaker, 1859 - Health - 301 pages
 

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Page 29 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Page 24 - ... religion gives to each divine person in the Trinity a different name and a separate office: art on its part has invested each name with an appropriate and special form, and represented each person, and characterised each office, by distinct attributes. The first person of the Divine Trinity is called the Father ; the second the Son ; and the third the Holy Ghost. They have all three been represented by artists either singly or conjoined. It will therefore be expedient to study them at first,...
Page 43 - My friend sups late ; he eats some strong soup, then a lobster, then some tart, and he dilutes these esculent varieties with wine. The next day I call upon him. He is going to sell his house in London, and to retire into the country.
Page 87 - early to bed and early to rise, is the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Page 291 - I saw them talking indeed to one another, and thought that, out of regard to my feeble condition, they spoke in whispers, because I heard them not. The truth was revealed to me in consequence of my solicitude about the book which had so much interested me in the day of my fall.
Page 158 - He lived to give a third or fourth edition of it; and after having passed his hundredth year, died without pain or agony, and like one who falls asleep. The treatise I mention has been taken notice of by several eminent authors, and is written with such a spirit of cheerfulness, religion, and good sense, as are the natural concomitants of temperance and sobriety. The mixture of the old man in it is rather a recommendation than a discredit to it.
Page 43 - In the same manner old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide.
Page 284 - I put my tongue between my teeth, held it there, and bit it almost in two pieces. What with the blood from my tongue and my lips, which I had also bitten, and the blood from my lungs or some other internal part ruptured by the writhing agony, I was almost choked, and became black in the face.
Page 86 - Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six. Four spend in prayer— the rest on nature fix. Rather. Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and 'all to heaven.
Page 238 - ... man, a sufferer from his cradle to his impending grave; aged even in childhood, and laying down in misery that life which was but one disease. He is even driven from some of the richest portions of this fertile yet unhappy country; and the traveller contemplates at a distance deserts, but deserts of vegetable wealth, which man dares not approach, — or he dies.

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