...ch are to follow. Consequently , these Epistles in their progress (if I have health and leisure to make any progress) will be less dry , and more susc... ...us, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs, Seas roll to waft me, suns to ligh... ...cts to one end, but acts by various laws.’ In all the madness of superfluous health, The trim of pride, the impudence of wealth, Let this great truth ... ...; And still new needs, new helps, new habits rise, That graft benevolence on charities. Still as one brood, and as another rose, These nat’ral love ma... ...mankind, Reason’s whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone; ... ...content. But grant him riches, your demand is o’er? ‘No, shall the good want health, the good want pow’r?’ Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 32 Add hea...

...beginning and quite completely the end of his investigations into Zenith’s charities and corrections; and as to the “vice districts” he brightly expre... ... which he announced the beauty, convenience, cheapness, and supererogatory healthfulness of Glen Oriole. The only flaw was that the Glen Oriole sewers... ...t., which Babbitt and the Traction officials had given to him for “fixing” health inspectors and fire inspectors and a member of the State Transporta-... ...rfect; the chairs were gently supercilious. Eathorne’s inquiries as to the healths of Mrs. Babbitt, Miss Babbitt, and the Other Children were softly p... ... Insist on it. It’s, uh—I think he sticks around home too much for his own health.” Eathorne came. It was a friendly dinner. Babbitt spoke gracefully ... ...r Dobbs, any questions regarding spiritual progress, matrimonial problems, health and well- being questions, financial difficulties, and—” They listen...

... Eight daughters of the plough, stronger than men, Huge women blowzed with health, and wind, and rain, And labour. Each was like a Druid rock; Or lik... ...rage, I, that have lent my life to build up yours, I that have wasted here health, wealth, and time, And talent, I—you know it—I will not boast: Dismi... ...left to do, The breath of life; O more than poor men wealth, Than sick men health—yours, yours, not mine—but half Without you; with you, whole; and of... ... seemed it strange that soon 63 Tennyson He rose up whole, and those fair charities Joined at her side; nor stranger seemed that hears So gentle, so ... ...and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on guano and on grain, A quarter-sessions chairman...

...news- papers announced—going to the south for motives con- nected with the health of his wife, which had long kept her in retirement. A year—more than... ...f conscious privilege that, cleverly cor- 39 Henry James rected by pretty charities, gave distinction to her ap- pearance—it had yet not a direct inf...

...of the service; might, however, be reck- oned in subscriptions for all the charities, and left her pew open to poor people, and none but the poor. She... ...ed it to himself half aloud; he was shockingly nervous. ‘Yes, I have finer health than many a younger woman,’ she said. ‘An ordinary calculation would... ...certain that their pay will not support a family; and in a marriage of two healthy young people, we have to assume the existence of the family. You ha...

...it is so shocking just when I most wanted a good one on account of mamma’s health. I am ashamed to say that I can offer not the slightest excuse; my c... ...he mother, fervently loved by all who came in contact with her, fragile in health, and only going through her duties and exertions so cheerily by the ... ... whose fame in the cricket field stood so high, and who was never happy or healthy without strong bodily exercise. Nor had he out- grown his taste for... ...ntlemen, I bid you farewell most affectionately . I wish you many years of health and happiness, of success and honour in your liberal profession; the... ..., your letter is certainly sad, and written like the letter of one in weak health. W ell, we shall see each other, please GOD, at Christmas now. That ... ... mod- eration in all things. I believe that more money is given in private charities of various kinds in helping those who are struggling with small m... ...ple. This did not include his sub- scriptions to the Orphan Home and other charities.’ To make his very liberal gifts in time of need in the name of h...

... which the servant pocketed with a mixture of wonder and contempt. “To the health of your master and mistress, Trotter,” Mr. Sedley said, “and here’s ... ...d mistress, Trotter,” Mr. Sedley said, “and here’s something to drink your health when you get home, Trotter.” There were but nine days past since Ame... ..., fell to. Jos’s spirits rose with his meal. He would drink the regiment’s health; or, indeed, take any other excuse to indulge in a glass of champagn... ...Major O’Dowd had the satisfaction of seeing both her patients refreshed in health and spirits by some rest which they had taken during the night. She ... ...ave her to write a letter to Mrs. Bute Crawley, saying that Miss Crawley’s health was greatly improved since Mrs. Bute had left her, and beg- ging the... ...w himself before the Hampshire public, subscribed handsomely to the county charities, called assiduously upon all the county folk, and laid himself ou...

...teen, might have been treated with some pity.’ ‘My sister was in declining health. He was very much en- grossed. He left the matter to—to others,’ sai... ...g in communicating with home. The General hated England, and was in broken health. He had spent the remaining years of his life at various continental... ... tell me, and does not like to be asked.’ ‘Poor fellow, he has damaged his health a good deal,’ was the answer. ‘He had a sharp attack in the spring, ... ...hter, but she was perfectly content to have no closer salutation. Having a healthy noon- day appetite, her chief wish was at the moment that those bea... ...actory. It was con- ducted by Mr. Dutton, with whom Lord Kirkaldy, between charities and public business, had become acquainted. To Mark’s secret sham... ...e groaned and grumbled at his brother’s selfishness, and declared that her health would be damaged, while his shrewder lady declared that nothing woul...

...al and political instability, and the first beginnings of the bishop’s ill health. 4 4 4 4 4 There came a day of exceptional fatigue and significance.... ... the future. He went to Brighton-Pomfrey too upon the score of his general health, and Brighton-Pomfrey revised his general regi- men, discouraged ind... ...world more busy and exacting than a bishop’s? He rolled in it spite of ill-health and insomnia, and all the while he was tor- mented by the enormous b... ...e highest quarters, quietly do not know any one else, busy themselves with charities, dress richly rather than impressively, and have either little wa... ...n and it disturbs your thoughts, you may take an idea and it disturbs your health. It is easy enough to say, as some do, that all ideas have a physica... ...ontradictory fact, some accident, or it may be some subtle change in one’s health and nerves that makes us feel doubtful. Or a change of hab- its. Or,...

...asy languor that showed his exercise of 6 The Trial the immunities of ill-health. He had been Ethel’s pupil till Tom’s last year at Eton, when he was... ...t to Dr. May’s convic- tion that it would be fatal in his present state of health, but to Ethel’s private entreaty that he would not add to her father... ...nsible to what his friend called Stoneborough stinks. The place was fairly healthy, and his ‘town councillor’s conservatism,’ and hatred of change, as... ...‘I meant sal-volatile, or anything to put her to sleep.’ ‘Nonsense! I hate healthy girls drugging themselves. You don’t do that at home, Mary!’ Mary s... ...turally a plump, well-looking girl of eighteen, with clearly-cut features, healthy highly-coloured com- plexion, and large bright hazel eyes, much dar... ... sent for all that could embellish her con- servatories, and by one of the charities by which she loved to kill two birds with one stone, imported a y...

...with his books and teach- ers! see ye to it. Pleasure him with sports, beguile him in wholesome ways, so that his health come again.” He raised himsel... ...honourable degree. “Yet did my brother Hugh turn these faults to good account—he seeing that our brother Arthur’s health was but indifferent, and hopi... ...rouble for Tom. He said that the Lords of the Council, fearing that some overwrought report of the King’s damaged health might have leaked out and got... ...y in many heads to be repeated about the Court as evidence of Tom’s originality as well as progress toward mental health. The elder culprit had ceased... ... cause of his calamity. Dot-and-go-One disencumbered himself of his timber leg and took his place, upon sound and healthy limbs, beside his fellow-ras... ... result was the founding of Christ’s Hospital for the education of poor children. (The King endowed several other charities at the same time.) “Lord G...

...ew letters, keepsakes, and the like. She lived in great fear of the Public Health and Morality Inspectors, because she was sometimes too poor to pay t... ... cross. They both had a profound sense of responsibility. My poor father’s health was wretched during his brief career; nobody outside the circle know... ...y in his evasion of the repeated summonses from Brissago. He affected ill- health and a great preoccupation with his new official mis- tress, for his ... ...s in order that they might ascend mountains. It matters little to the easy charities of our emancipated time that most people who have made their labo... ...nst—all this. If I could have moved more freely and lived a larger life in health I could have done more. But some day perhaps you will be able to put... ...less than the violence of those bombs could have released it and made it a healthy world again. I suppose they were necessary. Just as everything turn...

...ion, that forced a resemblance. T ouching the old game, Cuper’s fold was a healthy school, owing to the good lead of the head boy, Matey Weyburn, a la... ...red women—some of ours too—send the nose to the clouds; not a bad sign for health. And there are men like that old Cardinal Guicciardini tells of...hu... ...utes of fencing in the a salle d’armes of an Italian captain braced him to health, and shifted scenes of other loves, lighter loves, following the Bro... ...e an end to it, or no interdiction of sleep. Sleep was a triumph. Aminta’s healthy frame rode her over petty agitations of a blood uninflamed, as ligh... ...nds, the school has levelled on minors. In any case it shows the school is healthy.’ ‘I subscribe,’ said Mrs. Lawrence. ‘The little girl aged six shal... ...ped him up, and he apologized for tumbling, and I subscribed to one of his charities, and gave up about the pew, but had an excuse for not sitting und...

...s of politeness. He always “had the honor”; to all his inquiries as to the health of absent persons he added the adjectives “dear,” “good,” “excellent... ... province arrests industrial life, and 38 The Deputy of Arcis injures the health of a nation. Thus the little town of Arcis, without much means of tr... ...ne were only dead, Cecile might assuredly marry the young marquis; but the health of that great lady, who was still vigorous and almost beau- tiful at... ...ere, alas, too fat. She was, in fact, so overdone with fulness of life and health that her flesh formed a little pad, as one might call it, above her ... ...heir ends to the back of her head. Her face, a fine oval, and beaming with health, was remarkable for an aristocratic air which she certainly did not ... ... power; but it is only just to add that she asks nothing,—not even for her charities, for she provides the means to do them nobly by the wise manner i...

...uor was served out in decent profusion, the company drinking the Captain’s health with the customary ora- tions of compliment and acknowledgment. This... ...ters with aromatic vinegar before you receive them, and so careful of your health as to lock you up in your room every night lest you should walk in y... ...r a flower that had been dipped in a grease-pot?No; give me a fresh, dewy, healthy rose out of Somersetshire; not one of those su- perb, tawdry, unwho... ...ination of city and gardens, domes and shipping, hills and water, with the healthiest breeze blowing over it, and 56 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill... ... delightful pastime); and these sick were much better cared for than their healthy companions. Each man had two dressing-gowns, one of white cotton, a... ...ers of clients, of all persuasions, in the town, to whom they extend their charities. Each of their houses is a model of neatness, and a dispensary of...

... hearts were innocent, their hands were horribly red, and they glowed with health. Eve did not issue more innocent from the hands of God than these tw... ..., explaining that the count- ess had obtained this mysterious loan for her charities, which were so profuse that he was trying to put a limit to them....

...de—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining that the French duel is th... ...ble to sit up. I consider that, more than to anything else, I owe the success of our great undertaking to arnica and paregoric. My men are being resto... ...t Blanc and back, is twenty dollars—and he earns it. The time employed is usually three days, and there is enough early rising in it to make a man far... ...k Twain 268 timid, the enjoyments of the trip will hardly make up for the hardships and sufferings he will have to endure. But, if he has good nerve, ... ... have what may be called prohibitory reasons. In Paris and Munich, for instance, they say, “Don’t drink the water, it is simply poi- son.” Either Amer... ...ud as that, I would cut my right hand off. Your life is a continual lie. But go on, I have tried my best to save you from beggaring yourself by your r...

...k he was ready to drink a cask of it? Well, a cupful satisfied him.” “Your health!” said the portress, touching glasses with the Cardinal, who was car... ... assumed a difficult guardianship. Mademoi- selle de la Peyrade’s state of health requires, I am told, a care not only affectionate, but persevering.”... ... and the birth of a first child would undoubtedly re- store her to perfect health. You can readily understand that the remedy is too easy and agreeabl... ...e upon herself. ‘Oh! nonsense!’ she said; ‘they’ll stir my blood and do my health good!’” “It is pitiable!” said Cerizet. “That poor old maid will nev... ...t without vanilla; vanilla is very heating.” “Then I’ll get what they call health-chocolate,” said Lydie, with all the intonations of a mother, listen... ...y it revealed. Placed as I am by my ministry in the way of knowing of many charities, and often either the witness or intermediary of good actions, I ...

...d alone the house of his guest. He gave the salutation, inquired after his health, conversed about insignificant things with an inscrutable mien. But ... ... and pugnacious; but who was not a professed servant of God famed for many charities and a scrupulous per- formance of pious practices, and who also h... ...the great relief of d’Alcacer who really had not expected an answer. “Good health is a great asset in public life. Illness may make you miss a unique ...

...d with difficulty. ‘Don’t fly from un- fortunate man in shattered state of health. Give poor invalid honour of your company. It ain’t—ain’t catching.’... ...of clinking their rims, and inwardly drinks with great hearti- ness to the health and success in life of the young lady who has reduced Mr V enus to h... ...conversation were as yet so very imperfectly developed, even in a state of health, that in sickness they were little more than monosyllabic. But, he h... ... many thanks for the tea and all faviours and wishing to know the family’s healths.’ ‘Have you just come, Sloppy?’ ‘Yes, mum.’ ‘Then you have not had ... ...,’ said the man, composedly. ‘I was going to drink to your daughter. Y our health, Miss Riderhood.’ ‘That knife was the knife of a seaman named George... ...trons and Ex-Vice-Patron- esses, what does it all mean in the books of the Charities that come pouring in on Rokesmith as he sits among ‘em pretty wel...