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... physical laws , stronger and wider than any which you can make , upon which all human life depends , by infringing which the whole property of a district is depreciated . Again , what might not the " religious world , ” and the public ...
... physical laws , stronger and wider than any which you can make , upon which all human life depends , by infringing which the whole property of a district is depreciated . Again , what might not the " religious world , ” and the public ...
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... physical misery , and that the sur- est mode of attacking it , is to improve the physical conditions of the lower classes ; to abolish foul air , fouled water , foul lodging , and overcrowded dwell- ings , in which morality is difficult ...
... physical misery , and that the sur- est mode of attacking it , is to improve the physical conditions of the lower classes ; to abolish foul air , fouled water , foul lodging , and overcrowded dwell- ings , in which morality is difficult ...
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... physical health , decency , life - laws which the wild - cat of the wood , burying its own excrement apart from its lair , has learned by the light of nature ; but which neither nature nor God himself can as yet teach to a selfish ...
... physical health , decency , life - laws which the wild - cat of the wood , burying its own excrement apart from its lair , has learned by the light of nature ; but which neither nature nor God himself can as yet teach to a selfish ...
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... physical superiority of mountain races , for I tell you it is a dream . Civilization , art , poetry , belong to the lowlands . Are the English mountain- eers , pray , or the French , or the Germans ? Were the Egyptians mountaineers , or ...
... physical superiority of mountain races , for I tell you it is a dream . Civilization , art , poetry , belong to the lowlands . Are the English mountain- eers , pray , or the French , or the Germans ? Were the Egyptians mountaineers , or ...
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... physical exertion , you will be able to compute for yourself how much your back , knees , and fore - arm will ache by nine o'clock to - night , after some ten hours of this scram- bling , splashing , leaping , and kneeling upon a hot ...
... physical exertion , you will be able to compute for yourself how much your back , knees , and fore - arm will ache by nine o'clock to - night , after some ten hours of this scram- bling , splashing , leaping , and kneeling upon a hot ...
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Page 317 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Page 285 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 81 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Page 117 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Page 81 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Page 117 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround ; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Page 316 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Page 198 - He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread : but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Page 114 - The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time...
Page 291 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.