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... school age who appear to have been brought under better sanitary influences by their removal from squalid homes . But it would be a mistake to suppose that a stationary mortality necessarily indicates no improvement . The causes of ...
... school age who appear to have been brought under better sanitary influences by their removal from squalid homes . But it would be a mistake to suppose that a stationary mortality necessarily indicates no improvement . The causes of ...
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... impure water . Take as another example the case which has happened while this address is passing through the press . A large public school , supported by national subscriptions , is thoroughly 22 SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE .
... impure water . Take as another example the case which has happened while this address is passing through the press . A large public school , supported by national subscriptions , is thoroughly 22 SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE .
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Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair. public school , supported by national subscriptions , is thoroughly wrong in its hygienic ... schools . When the virus of disease enters the body in a state of solution , it is in a state most favourable for ...
Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair. public school , supported by national subscriptions , is thoroughly wrong in its hygienic ... schools . When the virus of disease enters the body in a state of solution , it is in a state most favourable for ...
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... that a far smaller amount of air suffices . In schools , for instance , often not one - fifth the amount of ventilation is given which is requisite for health . Our rooms would become intolerable if it were not that ON PUBLIC HEALTH . 27.
... that a far smaller amount of air suffices . In schools , for instance , often not one - fifth the amount of ventilation is given which is requisite for health . Our rooms would become intolerable if it were not that ON PUBLIC HEALTH . 27.
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... school of this country , I am only responsible for the deaths of two rabbits by poison ; and I ask the attention of the House to the case as a strong justification for experiments on animals . Still I should have been treated as a ...
... school of this country , I am only responsible for the deaths of two rabbits by poison ; and I ask the attention of the House to the case as a strong justification for experiments on animals . Still I should have been treated as a ...
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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.