Health, "the Paramount Asset."

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Terminal Press Company, 1928 - 262 עמודים
 

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עמוד 234 - We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making if It does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes ? In vain we build the world, unless The builder also grows.
עמוד 204 - Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky, O love of God, how rich and pure!
עמוד 19 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes...
עמוד 19 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says, pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any...
עמוד 176 - The builder lifted his old gray head. "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said "There followeth after me today A youth whose feet must pass this way. This chasm that has been naught to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
עמוד 224 - On that best portion of a good man's life, — His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
עמוד 214 - To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same.
עמוד 19 - The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds two days, very seldom three. They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark ; and in eight days' time they are as well as before their illness.
עמוד 176 - The builder lifted his old gray head — "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, "There followeth after me today, A youth whose feet must pass this way, This...
עמוד 176 - Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, "There followeth after me today, A youth whose feet must pass this way, This chasm that has been as naught to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be; He, too, must cross in the twilight dim — Good friend, I am building this bridge for him !" —Healthy Home, March S6, 'SI.

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