Physiology for young ladies1843 - 120 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 31–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... walking over the fields on this bright May morning . Grace was sixteen , and with the elastic step of youth and health she tripped merrily over the soft green turf , carrying on her arm a basket containing something for a poor sick ...
... walking over the fields on this bright May morning . Grace was sixteen , and with the elastic step of youth and health she tripped merrily over the soft green turf , carrying on her arm a basket containing something for a poor sick ...
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... walk , the first day you were allowed to go out of doors ? GRACE . Oh , yes ! the air felt so fresh , and the sight of the flowers , and the song of the birds , made me feel so happy , I thought I could never tire of walking among them ...
... walk , the first day you were allowed to go out of doors ? GRACE . Oh , yes ! the air felt so fresh , and the sight of the flowers , and the song of the birds , made me feel so happy , I thought I could never tire of walking among them ...
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... walking abroad the enjoyment of liberty . " " Tis that which makes fertile , and increases the natural endowments of your mind , and preserves them long from decay . " " Tis that which makes pleasure to be pleasure- without which you ...
... walking abroad the enjoyment of liberty . " " Tis that which makes fertile , and increases the natural endowments of your mind , and preserves them long from decay . " " Tis that which makes pleasure to be pleasure- without which you ...
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... walk about or work in the open air for hours with wet feet , provided he changes when he comes home . But it is the chill of wet feet when a person is inactive , that causes an unequal flow of blood to the internal parts . As long as a ...
... walk about or work in the open air for hours with wet feet , provided he changes when he comes home . But it is the chill of wet feet when a person is inactive , that causes an unequal flow of blood to the internal parts . As long as a ...
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... walk , or dance , or anything that changes the position of the muscles , carries off the fatigue . EDITH . I find sauntering and shopping so very fatiguing . MRS . F. That is because you do not like it , for I must tell you that there ...
... walk , or dance , or anything that changes the position of the muscles , carries off the fatigue . EDITH . I find sauntering and shopping so very fatiguing . MRS . F. That is because you do not like it , for I must tell you that there ...
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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,...