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Page 157
By being crammed with light and frothy trash , the mind , like the body with new
cider , becomes affected with flatulency ; a continuation of which , produces
dyspepsia ; this often results in dysorexia , and sometimes in dysthymia . Novel
writing ...
By being crammed with light and frothy trash , the mind , like the body with new
cider , becomes affected with flatulency ; a continuation of which , produces
dyspepsia ; this often results in dysorexia , and sometimes in dysthymia . Novel
writing ...
Page 172
PRESENCE OF MIND . This is a rare and useful quality , constitutional with some
, and greatly improved in others , by frequent and repeated exposure to danger .
This is strongly exhibited by our Aborigines , who are trained to perils from ...
PRESENCE OF MIND . This is a rare and useful quality , constitutional with some
, and greatly improved in others , by frequent and repeated exposure to danger .
This is strongly exhibited by our Aborigines , who are trained to perils from ...
Page 173
The man who is blessed with original presence of mind , will exhibit it on his first
exposure to sudden and imminent danger , and the greater the danger , the more
brightly will this quality shine . At a single glance , the peril and the remedy are ...
The man who is blessed with original presence of mind , will exhibit it on his first
exposure to sudden and imminent danger , and the greater the danger , the more
brightly will this quality shine . At a single glance , the peril and the remedy are ...
Page 192
To read with profit , the books must be of a kind calculated to inform the mind ,
correct the head , and better the heart . These books should be read with
attention , understood , remembered , and their precepts put in practice . It
depends less on ...
To read with profit , the books must be of a kind calculated to inform the mind ,
correct the head , and better the heart . These books should be read with
attention , understood , remembered , and their precepts put in practice . It
depends less on ...
Page 247
tal arrangement , and of the ever - revolving circuit of their own immortal minds ;
men often open the wrong valve , start on ... when the machinery of the immortal
mind is first put to work , unskilful engineers are too often employed , who open ...
tal arrangement , and of the ever - revolving circuit of their own immortal minds ;
men often open the wrong valve , start on ... when the machinery of the immortal
mind is first put to work , unskilful engineers are too often employed , who open ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | L.C. Judson, 1849 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2015 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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