Physiology for young ladies1843 - 120 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 18–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 8
... leave to the doctors : I would teach you only how to diminish and avoid the causes of ill health . EDITH . Well , if you can teach us to do without doctors and physic , it will be very pleasant . It is certainly very prosaic to be ill ...
... leave to the doctors : I would teach you only how to diminish and avoid the causes of ill health . EDITH . Well , if you can teach us to do without doctors and physic , it will be very pleasant . It is certainly very prosaic to be ill ...
Էջ 11
... . The trees unfold their leaves day by day — and hour by hour the fruit grows to maturity . Great are the changes in the earth , but Nature makes these changes by slow progressive steps . EDITH . Aye , aunt Ellen , you would bid 11.
... . The trees unfold their leaves day by day — and hour by hour the fruit grows to maturity . Great are the changes in the earth , but Nature makes these changes by slow progressive steps . EDITH . Aye , aunt Ellen , you would bid 11.
Էջ 12
... leave off his employment . GRACE . Then pain is in this instance the kind voice of Na- ture , telling him not to be too hasty , but give time for her to prepare a guard to his tender skin . MRS . F. Yes : pain is a wise provision of ...
... leave off his employment . GRACE . Then pain is in this instance the kind voice of Na- ture , telling him not to be too hasty , but give time for her to prepare a guard to his tender skin . MRS . F. Yes : pain is a wise provision of ...
Էջ 21
... leave off last ? GRACE . You said cold water was bad for infants , as their skins were too susceptible of cold at that early age . Is cold water good for older people ? MRS . F. The skin becomes more vigorous in youth , and can bear ...
... leave off last ? GRACE . You said cold water was bad for infants , as their skins were too susceptible of cold at that early age . Is cold water good for older people ? MRS . F. The skin becomes more vigorous in youth , and can bear ...
Էջ 22
... leave the windows open for an hour or two , so as to secure a thorough and cleansing ventilation . Many servants make the beds up the moment people have left their rooms , without opening the windows or airing them . The plan of ...
... leave the windows open for an hour or two , so as to secure a thorough and cleansing ventilation . Many servants make the beds up the moment people have left their rooms , without opening the windows or airing them . The plan of ...
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Էջ 71 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Էջ 28 - Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? How tasteless then whatever can be given? Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health.
Էջ 138 - Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
Էջ 42 - Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind : The morning rises gay, with pleasing stealth, The temperate evening falls serene and kind. In health the wiser brutes true gladness find. See how the younglings frisk along the meads, As May...
Էջ 26 - Female dress errs in one important particular, even when unexceptionable in material and quantity. From the tightness with which it is made to fit on the upper part of the body, not only is the insensible perspiration injudiciously and hurtfully confined, but that free play between the dress and the skin, which is so beneficial in gently stimulating the latter by friction at every movement of the body, is altogether prevented...
Էջ 77 - Accordingly, no fact in medicine is better established than that which proves the hereditary transmission from parents to children of a constitutional liability to pulmonary disease, and especially to consumption; yet no condition is less attended to in forming matrimonial engagements. The children of scrofulous and consumptive parents are generally precocious, and their minds being early matured, they engage early in the business of life, and often enter the married state before their bodily frame...
Էջ 86 - George was the first that entered; and, the place being crammed full with offenders, the atmosphere soon became pestilentially close. The poor boy in vain shrieked that he was about to be suffocated. At last, in despair, he bit the lad next to him violently in the hand. 'Crabbe is dying — Crabbe is dying...
Էջ 5 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Էջ 120 - He had valuable gifts, perfected by two years' academic, four years' collegiate, and three years' theological studies. He preached, gave much promise, and then died of a stomach disease. He contracted it when a student. He did not alternate bodily with mental labour, or he had lived and been a blessing to the church. When he entered on his studies, he was growing into full size and strength. He sat down till his muscles dwindled, his digestion became disordered, his chest contracted, his lungs_ congested,...