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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased…
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At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further…
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Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in…
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Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order,…
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I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet,…
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My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put…
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I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a…
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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial…
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable…
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Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it…
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To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of…
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…
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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional…
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I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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