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... referred to , I have been enabled to do without the least particle of medicine since April , 1842. Constipation has made its exit ; head - ache and I soon began to be on bad terms , and it threatened to leave me altogether , if I did ...
... referred to , I have been enabled to do without the least particle of medicine since April , 1842. Constipation has made its exit ; head - ache and I soon began to be on bad terms , and it threatened to leave me altogether , if I did ...
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... refers it to the previous night's excess either in eating or drinking , or both ; and knows it is a natural consequence of his own error ; yet it is as much the work of Providence as blindness in a new - born child . Nay , further ; if ...
... refers it to the previous night's excess either in eating or drinking , or both ; and knows it is a natural consequence of his own error ; yet it is as much the work of Providence as blindness in a new - born child . Nay , further ; if ...
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... referred to the Health and Longevity of some who have made much use of it . On the other hand we are told that the cows about our Towns and Cities are greatly diseased , in consequence of being subjected to the unnatural and unhealthy ...
... referred to the Health and Longevity of some who have made much use of it . On the other hand we are told that the cows about our Towns and Cities are greatly diseased , in consequence of being subjected to the unnatural and unhealthy ...
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... refer to the American Indians , we find at the first arrival of Europeans among them , it was not uncommon to find persons who were above 100 years old.— They lived frugally , and drank only pure water . Strong drinks were unknown to ...
... refer to the American Indians , we find at the first arrival of Europeans among them , it was not uncommon to find persons who were above 100 years old.— They lived frugally , and drank only pure water . Strong drinks were unknown to ...
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... refer to our own country for facts and illustrations equally striking . In the " Pa- triot , " of the 12th of October , are notices of the death of four individuals , then recently deceased ; of whom one was in his 92nd year , another ...
... refer to our own country for facts and illustrations equally striking . In the " Pa- triot , " of the 12th of October , are notices of the death of four individuals , then recently deceased ; of whom one was in his 92nd year , another ...
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Page 241 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 25 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 68 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 23 - My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 221 - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Page 18 - Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge ; and again, Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. Trusting too much to others...
Page 108 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Page 7 - His hand is against every man; and every man's hand is against him.
Page 122 - I cry aloud to all and sundry, in my plainest accents, and at the very tiptop of my voice, — Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Page 67 - What then is the mark? Who is a Methodist, according to your own account?' I answer: A Methodist is one who has 'the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost given unto him...