The Health Exhibition Literature. ...W. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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Page 495 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once.
Page 519 - Their heads sometimes so little, that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.
Page 62 - ... making up the season, their mutual adaptations, and their adaptation to the stage of growth of the plant, which throughout influence the tendency to produce quantity or quality. It not unfrequently happens, too, that some passing conditions, not indicated by a summary of the meteorological registry, may affect the crop very strikingly ; and thus the cause will be overlooked, unless careful observations be also made, and the stage of progress, and tendencies of growth, of the crop itself at the...
Page 46 - Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right.
Page 536 - Idiots have been improved, educated, and even cured ; not one in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment ; not one in a hundred who has not been made more happy and healthy ; more than thirty per cent.
Page 556 - Mr. John Morley acknowledged the resolution and moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was seconded by Mr.
Page 351 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 62 - It is obvious that different seasons will differ almost infinitely at each succeeding period of their advance, and that, with each variation, the character of development of the plant will also vary, tending to luxuriance, or to maturation, that is, to quantity, or to quality, as the case may be. Hence, only a very detailed consideration of climatic statistics taken together with careful periodic observations in the field, can afford a really clear perception of the connection between the ever-fluctuating...
Page 536 - ... not one in a hundred who has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent, have been taught to conform to social and moral law and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man ; more than...
Page 338 - ... working, working, working, learning weekday lessons all weekdays, and Sunday lessons all Sunday, and weekly examinations every Saturday, and monthly examinations every month, and yearly examinations every year, everything seven times over, as if once was not enough, and enough as good as a feast — till their brains grew big, and their bodies grew small, and they were all changed into turnips, with little but water inside ; and still their foolish parents actually pick the leaves off them as...