 It is everywhere — in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the food we eat. And it is at once swift and sluggish, painful and stupefying, obvious and incapable of analysis. It is like a beautiful woman, or a great joy, or love itself.  What it is to be Educated? - Page 74de Charles Hanford Henderson - 1914 - 462 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1852 - 672 pages
...researches on the presence of iodine in nature. He finds it to exist in proportions, varying as to locality, in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the soil of the earth, and the vegetables it produces. When the proportion of iodine falls below the limit... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...they reach us from below ; they surround us on all sides. Influences for health and disease are found in the water we drink, in the food we eat, in the fruits that grow upon the trees, in the vegetables from the earth, and in the atmosphere which we inhale.... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1860 - 166 pages
...here will be of Life, and chiefly of those minuter or obscurer forms, which seldom attract attention. In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death... | |
 | 1861 - 782 pages
...order, crawling, creeping, burrowing, boring, leaping, running. Out of our sight are living things. In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the food we eat, in the very acids, in the toughest flint, in the pulp of mellow fruit, in the leaves and organs of plants,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1865 - 378 pages
...hearts that long have been bounding; tears wept by eyes that have never wept in life before ; death in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the food we eat — death in ceaseless action everywhere. The warmest heart that beats must one day grow cold; the... | |
 | William David Stuart - 1865 - 398 pages
...is great in great things, he is exceeding great in small ones.' " This world is a world of life — in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the ground on which we tread. Life is hurried on by the whirlwind, or borne on the wings of the summer... | |
 | John Cumming - 1867 - 348 pages
...hearts that long have been bounding; tears wept by eyes that have never wept in life before; death in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the food we eat — death in ceaseless action everywhere. The warmest heart that beats must one day grow cold; the... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 pages
...ye everlasting doors ! And the King of Glory shall come in. PSALM xxiv. XV.— LIFE E VER Y WHERE. IN the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death... | |
 | 1874 - 942 pages
...who has hidden such marvellous recuperative energies in our bodies, and stored up medicinal virtues in the water we drink, in the food we eat, in the air we breathe, in the herbs we gather, in the very rocks on which we tread ? Ha was Love ; and what... | |
 | English history - 1882 - 192 pages
...past, by the manliness, the wisdom, and the piety of our forefathers. At every moment of our lives, in the food we eat, in the clothes we wear, in the towns and the villages we inhabit, in the books we read, in the laws we live under, in the very thoughts... | |
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