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... century England had no town except London with more than 100,000 inhabitants ; now , in 1881 , there are twenty . There are fifty towns now in England and Wales containing upwards of 50,000 inhabitants , and these towns contain a larger ...
... century England had no town except London with more than 100,000 inhabitants ; now , in 1881 , there are twenty . There are fifty towns now in England and Wales containing upwards of 50,000 inhabitants , and these towns contain a larger ...
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... Middle Ages had passed away , and the sun of civilisation was again rising over the gloomy darkness of these centuries , what a heritage of filth - produced disease still remained ! Look 14 SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL WELfare .
... Middle Ages had passed away , and the sun of civilisation was again rising over the gloomy darkness of these centuries , what a heritage of filth - produced disease still remained ! Look 14 SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL WELfare .
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... century , how little do we know of any object the most familiar to us ! Of the air that we incessantly breathe , and of the water which we continually drink , our knowledge , even now , is far from complete . But this we do know , that ...
... century , how little do we know of any object the most familiar to us ! Of the air that we incessantly breathe , and of the water which we continually drink , our knowledge , even now , is far from complete . But this we do know , that ...
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... century may be moderately estimated at 3,000 per million of the population annually for the whole country . London the mortality has always been greater than in the country . In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was certainly ...
... century may be moderately estimated at 3,000 per million of the population annually for the whole country . London the mortality has always been greater than in the country . In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was certainly ...
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... century from 3,000 to 600 per million ; gratuitous vaccination by the State re- duced it to 302 , while obligatory law inefficiently adminis- tered reduced it to 223 , and the same law under vaccination officers further reduces it to ...
... century from 3,000 to 600 per million ; gratuitous vaccination by the State re- duced it to 302 , while obligatory law inefficiently adminis- tered reduced it to 223 , and the same law under vaccination officers further reduces it to ...
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Page 228 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 20 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, Nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Page 40 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 240 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 222 - ... reveals himself in parents, teachers, superiors. Then comes the second; Reverence for what is Under us. Those hands folded over the back, and as it were tied together; that down-turned smiling look, announce that we are to regard the earth with attention and cheerfulness: from the bounty of the earth we are nourished: the earth affords unutterable joys ; but disproportionate sorrows she also brings us.
Page 8 - And as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the perfumes, and put the heart and the liver of the fish thereupon, and made a smoke therewith. The which smell when the evil spirit had smelled, he fled into the utmost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
Page 13 - And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 264 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out : it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire : 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 223 - Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hath vanished as a phantasma. Her youthful days are over, and her face hath become wrinkled and tetrick. She poreth not upon the heavens, astronomy is dead unto her, and knowledge maketh other cycles.
Page 161 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.