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... strong and weak points , liabilities to err , etc. , and thereby points out , unmistakably , those occupations and spheres in which we can and cannot succeed and shine ; and develops the laws and conditions of human and personal virtue ...
... strong and weak points , liabilities to err , etc. , and thereby points out , unmistakably , those occupations and spheres in which we can and cannot succeed and shine ; and develops the laws and conditions of human and personal virtue ...
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... strong beasts , have a correspondingly powerful organic structure . The muscular strength of lions is so extraordinary , that seizing wild cattle by the neck , they dash through thicket , marsh , and ravine , for hours together , as a ...
... strong beasts , have a correspondingly powerful organic structure . The muscular strength of lions is so extraordinary , that seizing wild cattle by the neck , they dash through thicket , marsh , and ravine , for hours together , as a ...
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... strong persons is dense and most elastic , while those of weakly ones are flabby , and yield to pressure . Moreover , fineness of texture manifests exquisiteness of sensibility , as seen by contrasting human organism and feelings with ...
... strong persons is dense and most elastic , while those of weakly ones are flabby , and yield to pressure . Moreover , fineness of texture manifests exquisiteness of sensibility , as seen by contrasting human organism and feelings with ...
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... strong or weak , firm or flabby , coarse - grained or fine- textured , even or prominent , rough or smooth , small - boned or large- boned , or whatever else , his whole body is built upon the same principle , with which his brain and ...
... strong or weak , firm or flabby , coarse - grained or fine- textured , even or prominent , rough or smooth , small - boned or large- boned , or whatever else , his whole body is built upon the same principle , with which his brain and ...
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... strong constitutioned , slow to ripen , or better as they grow older ; full of animal life ; self - caring ; money - making ; fond of animal pleasures ; good feeling , yet spirited when roused ; impulsive ; more given to physi- cal than ...
... strong constitutioned , slow to ripen , or better as they grow older ; full of animal life ; self - caring ; money - making ; fond of animal pleasures ; good feeling , yet spirited when roused ; impulsive ; more given to physi- cal than ...
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