The Four epochs of woman's lifeW.B. Saunders & Company, 1903 - 244 pages |
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Page 176 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 124 - As the husband is, the wife is ; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
Page 243 - GRIFFITH'S WEIGHT CHART. Infant's Weight Chart. Designed by JP CROZER GRIFFITH, MD , Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the University of Pennsylvania, etc.
Page 19 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 19 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 20 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
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Page 243 - ... The Care of the Baby. By JP CROZER GRIFFITH, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children, University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, etc.