Annual Report, Volumes 5-6

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1881
 

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Page 43 - do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his and her own. The
Page 210 - of not more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. And be it enacted. That in all cases where animals affected with, or which shall have been exposed to a contagious or infectious disease, are ordered to be killed, or
Page 37 - effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health; and they shall gather such information in respect to these matters as they may deem proper for diffusion among the people." When it is considered that the school children, from the ages of five to eighteen years, constitute about one-third of the population of the State, that
Page 42 - Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life, the fortune and the happiness of every one of us, and more or less of those who
Page 43 - has depicted Satan playing at chess with man for his soul. Substitute for the mocking fiend in that picture, a calm, strong angel, who is playing for love, as we say, and would rather lose than
Page 47 - the actions of the spinal cord, what is the normal rate of pulsation, or how the lungs are inflated. While anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago, they care not that they should be taught anything about the structure and functions of
Page 43 - I should accept it as an image of human life. " Well, what I mean by education is learning the rules of this mighty game. In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest,
Page 37 - cognizance of the interests of health and life among the citizens of this State; they shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality, and
Page 76 - in such case made and provided, against the peace of this State, the government and dignity of the same. And the grand inquest aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present: that said being seized and possessed of a certain other mill-dam, with its appurtenances,
Page 76 - our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and from that day until the day of the taking of this inquisition, at the township of Bridgewater aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this court, unlawfully and injuriously use and occupy the said other mill-dam, with

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