The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 стор. |
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... Greek and Latin and mathematics should be soundly taught , and cricket and rowing and football strenuously practised . Therewith must be connected middle and lower schools , for commercial education and the three R's re- spectively ...
... Greek and Latin and mathematics should be soundly taught , and cricket and rowing and football strenuously practised . Therewith must be connected middle and lower schools , for commercial education and the three R's re- spectively ...
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... Greek and the calculus . Then , as to amusement . First of all , I would have a village green , a fine wide common , where the elders might lounge on summer afternoons , while the boys played cricket , and the girls croquet , and the ...
... Greek and the calculus . Then , as to amusement . First of all , I would have a village green , a fine wide common , where the elders might lounge on summer afternoons , while the boys played cricket , and the girls croquet , and the ...
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... Greek alphabet . . . and I suspect they would compare favourably with any par- liament since the days of Simon de Montfort . The truth is that the best Englishmen will not be troubled about politics . And I think them wise . With such ...
... Greek alphabet . . . and I suspect they would compare favourably with any par- liament since the days of Simon de Montfort . The truth is that the best Englishmen will not be troubled about politics . And I think them wise . With such ...
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... Greek gods , and was a kind of Disraeli- Ixion . I made several acquaintances , but found nothing so pleasant as the humorous homeliness of Hermes , and the half haughty but wholly generous courtesy of Apollo . Indeed , I saw few ...
... Greek gods , and was a kind of Disraeli- Ixion . I made several acquaintances , but found nothing so pleasant as the humorous homeliness of Hermes , and the half haughty but wholly generous courtesy of Apollo . Indeed , I saw few ...
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... Greek squire's linen was to be washed , his daughters and their maidens would drive . in a four - horse waggon to some secluded river , and do the work quickly , and bathe thereafter , and end the summer day with a merry game at ball ...
... Greek squire's linen was to be washed , his daughters and their maidens would drive . in a four - horse waggon to some secluded river , and do the work quickly , and bathe thereafter , and end the summer day with a merry game at ball ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 59 - The time is out of joint : — 0 cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!
Сторінка 94 - Tells us his misery's birth and growth and signs, And how the dying spark of hope was fed, And how the breast was soothed, and how the head, And all his hourly varied anodynes.