The Map of Life, Conduct and CharacterLongmans, Green, 1899 - 328 pages |
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... carry with it any over- whelming force . There are , however , a certain number of beliefs that are not susceptible of demonstrative proof , and which must always rest essentially on the universal assent of mankind . Such is the ...
... carry with it any over- whelming force . There are , however , a certain number of beliefs that are not susceptible of demonstrative proof , and which must always rest essentially on the universal assent of mankind . Such is the ...
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... carried on under sound sanitary conditions . Fashion also can do much , both for good and ill . It exercises over great multitudes an almost absolute empire , regulating their dress , their education , their hours , their amusements ...
... carried on under sound sanitary conditions . Fashion also can do much , both for good and ill . It exercises over great multitudes an almost absolute empire , regulating their dress , their education , their hours , their amusements ...
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... sufficiency of steady work not carried to excess- occasional change of habits and abstinence from a few things which are manifestly injurious to health , are the cardinal rules to be observed . In the great lottery 16 THE MAP OF LIFE.
... sufficiency of steady work not carried to excess- occasional change of habits and abstinence from a few things which are manifestly injurious to health , are the cardinal rules to be observed . In the great lottery 16 THE MAP OF LIFE.
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... carried to an extreme which defeats its own purpose . The habit that so often grows upon men with slight chronic maladies , or feeble tempera- ment , or idle lives , of making their own health and their own ailments the constant subject ...
... carried to an extreme which defeats its own purpose . The habit that so often grows upon men with slight chronic maladies , or feeble tempera- ment , or idle lives , of making their own health and their own ailments the constant subject ...
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... carried in some respects to a point which is unknown on the Continent . But what a strange form of compassion is that which long made it impossible to establish a Pasteur Institute in England , obliging patients threatened with one of ...
... carried in some respects to a point which is unknown on the Continent . But what a strange form of compassion is that which long made it impossible to establish a Pasteur Institute in England , obliging patients threatened with one of ...
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