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Page 74 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed.
Page 71 - The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away ... So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Page 246 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 34 - Every blade of grass, and every branch of tree would drip with moisture deposited by the passing air ; our dresses would become wet and dripping, and umbrellas useless ; but our miseries would not end here. The inside of our houses would become wet ; the walls and every object in the room would run with moisture.
Page 11 - That in the opinion of this meeting the sanitary condition of this country is still very unsatisfactory, and that further legislation is necessary with a view to its improvement ; and that for the purpose of collecting and imparting information upon all matters connected with the subject of ' Public Health ' a Society be now formed, to be styled ' The Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.
Page 261 - There draws the Grinder his laborious breath ; There coughing at his deadly trade he bends : Born to die young, he fears nor man nor death ; Scorning the future, what he earns he spends ; ' Debauch and riot are his bosom friends.
Page 38 - That the object of both was the establishing another Water Company, the circumstances afterwards disclosed in the evidence given to the Select Committee of the House of Commons, of which Sir Francis Burdett was the chairman, proved beyond all doubt. Though their schemes " would require the outlay of a million, the overthrow of a grinding monopoly of an element of life...
Page 13 - The rules of the Senate and House, insofar as they are applicable, shall govern the committee and its subcommittees. The rules of the committee, insofar as they are applicable, shall be the rules of any subcommittee of the committee. RULE 2. The meetings of the committee shall be held at such times and in such places as the chairman may designate, or at such times as a quorum of the committee may request in writing, with adequate advance notice provided to all members of the committee.
Page 3 - Council of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain in 1877 to establish Voluntary Examinations, to appoint a Board of Examiners, and to grant Certificates of Competency in Sanitary knowledge. The Sanitary Institute, in which the older body was incorporated in 1888, is continuing this important work.
Page 34 - ... that if there was no dust there would be no fogs, no clouds, no mists, and probably no rain, and that the supersaturated air would convert every object on the surface of the earth into a condenser on which it would deposit; (4) our breath when it becomes visible on a cold morning^ and every puff of steam •as it escapes into the air, show the impure and dusty condition of our atmosphere.