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ablution allowed amusement anasarca aperient apply approve artificial food awake bath better blood body boiled bowels bread breast breath bronchitis calomel cause change of air chest child Child-crowing Chlorosis cold water commencement consumption costive cough croup dangerous delicate diarrhoea diet disease dose dress effect eruption especially exercise face fever flannel flatulence frequently fresh air girl give glottis gums habit hand head Henry Kirke White improper infant inflammation keep Lancet lancing lungs magnesia means measles meat Medical mild milk morning mother navel-string necessary never night nurse nursery open air pain paregoric parents patient permanent teeth play plenty predisposed prevent produce quantity recommend remedy requires rubbed scarlet-fever scrofula sick simple plan skin sleep small-pox soon sponge stomach suckling symptoms teeth tight-lacing tion usually vaccination warm water warm-bath washed water-on-the-brain weather wet-nurse wholesome young youth
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الصفحة 218 - So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
الصفحة 218 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest . Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
الصفحة 110 - tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
الصفحة 218 - self destroyed her favourite son ! Yes ! she too much indulged thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle...
الصفحة 218 - Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studies that would have matured a mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than sub dued.
الصفحة 103 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
الصفحة 213 - Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. The breath of night's destructive to the hue Of every flower that blows. Go to the field, And ask the humble daisy why it sleeps Soon as the sun departs: Why close the eyes Of blossoms infinite, ere the still moon Her oriental veil puts off? Think why, Nor let the sweetest blossom be exposed That nature boasts, to night's unkindly damp.
الصفحة 104 - The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze conies by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
الصفحة 165 - Substitute for the patient's wet clothing, if possible, such other covering as can be instantly procured, each bystander supplying a coat or cloak, etc.
الصفحة 198 - ... the exercise of the organs of the breast by singing contributes very much to defend them from those diseases to which the climate and other causes expose them. The Germans are seldom afflicted with consumption, nor have I ever known but one instance of spitting blood among them.