Lectures on the Means of Promoting and Preserving Health: Delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, SpitalfieldsJ. and A. Arch, 1835 - 449 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
acid acquired advantage allowed amongst animal apoplexy appears ardent spirits attention become beer blood bodily body bread called carbonic acid cause cold consequence considerable counteract cultivation death degree diet digestion diluents disease drink duced effect employed engaged especially essen evil example excited exer exercise exertions exposed faculty fatal favourable feel fibrin flatulence flesh habit heat HOUNDSDITCH important individuals induce inflammation influence injurious instances intemperance intoxication JOHN HODGKIN John Pringle kidneys kind labour lacteals Lectures less liquors living means meat ment milk mind mode muscles necessary nutritious object observed occasion occupations operatives pernicious persons poor portion possess practice principle produced promote purpose quadrupeds quantity racter regarded remarkable render require respect right auricle saliva scarcely sense small-pox sometimes SPITALFIELDS stomach strength taken taste tendency tion turb vaccination various vegetable whilst wholly wine
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Página 361 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their consequent punishment : by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and observing strict economy in every department of the state.
Página 90 - head return: So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature." Notwithstanding the examples of extreme longevity which
Página 142 - makes the victim of intoxication to say, " They have stricken me, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not." The immediate effect of a large quantity of spirits upon the eyesight, in producing
Página 81 - By intemp'rance more In meats and drinks, which on the earth shall bring Diseases dire ; of which a monstrous crew Before thee shall appear, that thou may'st know What misery th' inabstinence of Eve Shall bring on men.
Página 414 - that because they descend not with worldly inheritances, must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth, for which after ages will owe more to the care and prudence of founders, and the successive magistery, than to their parents, for their private patrimonies.
Página xiii - trampled to death. This scene of misery proved entertainment to the brutal wretches without, who supplied them with water that they might have the satisfaction of seeing them fight for it, as they phrased it; and held up lights to the bars that they might lose no part of the inhuman diversion.
Página 360 - When you do any thing from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make wrong suppositions about it: for if you do not act right, shun the action itself; but if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly
Página 189 - It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than drunkenness, for all other vanities and sins are recovered from; but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of his beastliness." Notwithstanding this, which is unhappily too often supported by fact, I would not have the drunkard despair, if he would but seriously enter on the right course.
Página 192 - and at the same time preserved the head clearer. Those who continued to gorge themselves with beer, often lost their credit with the publican, from neglecting to pay their score. They had then recourse to me, to become security for them; their light, as they used to call it, being out.
Página 264 - men, I am fully persuaded, that such a people would not only dwell in absolute safety, but would be blessed with eminent prosperity, enriched with unrestricted commerce, loaded with reciprocal benefits, and endowed for every good, and wise, and worthy purpose, with irresistible influence over surrounding