The Hygienic Treatment of Consumption

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M.L. Holbrook, 1891 - 219 pages
 

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Page 97 - PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door; 'Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh ! give relief and Heaven will bless your store.
Page 97 - Princes, Potentates, Warriors, the Flower of Heaven — once yours ; now lost, If such astonishment as this can seize Eternal Spirits ! Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To...
Page 186 - If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities of obedience and faith, let us at least resist our temptations; let us enter into the state of war, and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done in our smooth times by speaking the truth. Check this lying hospitality and lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them...
Page 188 - As a rock on the sea shore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger the courage of his heart sustaineth him ; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
Page 94 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 211 - Not what knowledge is of most real worth is the consideration, but what will bring most applause, honor, respect — what will most conduce to social position and influence — what will be most imposing. As throughout life not what we are, but what we shall be thought, is the question; so in education, the question is, not the intrinsic value of knowledge, so much as its extrinsic effects on others.
Page 189 - A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Page 93 - O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory.
Page 187 - Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behoovath thee. therefore, О child of calamity ! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil.
Page 189 - All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

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