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Page 159 - And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Page 159 - And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Page 200 - A country where the entire people is, or even once has been, laid hold of, filled to the heart with an infinite religious idea, has " made a step from which it cannot retrograde." Thought, conscience, the sense that man is denizen of a Universe, creature of an Eternity, has penetrated to the remotest cottage, to the simplest heart. Beautiful and awful, the feeling of a Heavenly Behest, of Duty god-commanded, over-canopies all life. There is an inspiration in such a people: one may say in a more special...
Page 345 - Tabes dorsalis proceeds from the spinal cord, it is frequently met with among newly married .people and libertines. There is no fever, the appetite is preserved, but the body falls away. If you interrogate the patients, they will tell you that they feel as if ants were crawling down along the spine. In making water or going to stool, they pass much semen.
Page 112 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 364 - Alexander wounded by the enemy, mangled, battered, bruised, from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, With spears, and swords, and mighty stones...
Page 382 - And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard — that is all — and I have never refused God anything ; though, being naturally a very shy person, most of my life has been distasteful to me.
Page 181 - The eyea are prominent, but the lids, from being still rudimentary, do not cover the eyeball ; the nose forms an obtuse eminence ; the nostrils are rounded and separated ; the mouth is gaping, and the epidermis can be distinguished from the true skin. At ten weeks, the embryo is from one and a half to two and a half inches in length, and weighs an ounce or an ounce and a half.
Page 343 - ... his mind at night full of lascivious dreams — the one is a consequence of the other, and the nocturnal pollution is a natural consequence, particularly when diurnal indulgence has produced an irritability of the generative organs. A will which in our waking hours we have not exercised in repressing sexual desires will not, when we fall asleep, preserve us from carrying the sleeping echo of our waking thought farther than we dared to do in the daytime.
Page 20 - ... broadly placed before me here in America, where the state of morals, as regards the two sexes, is comparatively pure ; where the marriages are early, where conditions are equal, where the means of subsistence are abundant, where the women are much petted and considered by the men — too much so. For a result then so universal, there must be a cause or causes as universal, not depending on any particular customs, manners, or religion, or political institutions. And what are these causes? Many...