The Story of My LifeD. Appleton and Company, 1888 - 471 pàgines |
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Pàgina 460 - All things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into the world, the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
Pàgina 460 - Universal history ... is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here. . . . All things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into the world, the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
Pàgina 465 - Though it is of the greatest importance that books upon health should be in the highest degree trustworthy, it is notorious that most of the cheap and popular kind are mere crude compilations of incompetent persons, and are often misleading and injurious. Impressed by these considerations, several eminent medical and scientific men of London
Pàgina 467 - author extends the ordinary view of foods, and includes water and air, since they are important both in their food and sanitary aspects. The book contains a series of diagrams, displaying the effects of sleep and meals on pulsation
Pàgina 464 - and sanitation, is explained and discussed."—Detroit Evening News. For sale by all booksellers ; or will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. New York: D. APPLETON & CO.. Publishers,
Pàgina 468 - QUAIN, MD, FRS, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians ; Member of the Senate of the University of London; Member of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration ; Consulting Physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest at Brompton, etc. In one large 8vo volume of 1,834 pages, and 138 Illustrations, morocco, $8.00. Sold only by subscription. Half This work is primarily a Dictionary of
Pàgina 31 - The lives we need to have written for us are of the people whom the world has not thought of—far less heard of—who are yet doing most of its work, and of whom we may learn how it can best be done.
Pàgina 465 - JOHN TWEEDY, FRCS In square lomo volumes. Cloth, 40 cents each. I. EXERCISE AND TRAINING. II. ALCOHOL: Its Use and Abuse. III. PREMATURE DEATH: Its Promotion or Prevention. IV. THE HOUSE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. V. PERSONAL APPEARANCE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. VI.
Pàgina 82 - to the terrapin, and the name suited him exactly. He was less than five feet high, and his head was the biggest part of the whole man. He was a perfect taper from the side of his head down to his feet ; he looked like a wedge with a head on it.
Pàgina 150 - that time was heroic ; it was murderous. I knew nothing about medicine, but I had sense enough to see that doctors were killing their patients; that medicine was not an exact science; that it was wholly empirical, and that it would be better to trust entirely to Nature than to the hazardous skill of the doctors.