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In this fever, now known as a form of Typhoid, the disease spreads a sort of blight over the nervous centres, and from the first greatly lowers their power. The patient is too weak to bear the powerful cooling recommended in Fever; there is also a tendency to prolonged and "low" fever. First of all, in such a case, the feet and legs must be fomented.
The bark and wood are treated at special plants in such a way that an extract which is valuable for tanning leather is obtained. Chestnut trees are upstanding, straight trees that tower 80 to 100 feet above the ground. The extinction of our chestnut forests threatens as no effectual control measures for checking the chestnut blight disease over large areas has yet been discovered.
The domination of such a society would make this country a hell. It would light the flame of civil war in our midst, and blight every hope of its future prosperity." And now we reach the core of the question. It is perfectly clear that Home Rule would create a Roman Catholic ascendency in Ireland, but still it might be said that the Church of Rome would be tolerant.
On the 25th of January, six days after the opening of the session, he rose in a full house; expressed his sense of the great responsibility under which he laboured, and claimed its indulgence whilst he endeavoured to explain what had been already done to counteract the disastrous results of the potato blight in Ireland; to call their attention to those measures which the Government considered necessary to meet the existing emergency, and finally to submit to its consideration other measures, which, in the opinion of her Majesty's advisers, were calculated to improve the general condition of that country, and lay the foundation of its permanent improvement.
The blight on the potato first showed itself in 1845 a new, undreamed-of disaster, probably owing to the long succession of unfavourable seasons. And the potato blight meant almost certainly famine in Ireland, where perhaps three-fourths of the population had no food but this root. The food supply of a whole nation seemed on the point of being cut off.
I'm convinced that very often he pretends to see things that he doesn't see. He loves frightening the village people, for instance, and some of them are really afraid of him. They think he can heal certain simple ailments, and they're absolutely certain that he can what they call 'blight' them!" "What a very convenient gift," observed Radmore drily.
The Landlords' Committee A new Irish party Circular The "Great Meeting of Irish Peers, Members of Parliament and Landlords" in the Rotunda The Resolutions Spirit of those Resolutions Emigration Great anxiety for it Opening of Parliament Queen's Speech England on her Trial Debate on the Address Lord Brougham on Irish Landlords Lord Stanley on the Famine Smith O'Brien's Speech Defends the Landlords Mr Labouchere, the Irish Secretary, defends the Government The Irish Agricultural population were always on the brink of starvation, and when the Blight came it was impossible to meet the disaster The views of the Morning Chronicle on the Government of Ireland Mr.
This Penelope Blight, daintily clothed in soft black webs woven for her by a hundred toiling human spiders, was not even the Penelope Blight of my wildest boyish dreams.
Liberty is dead. Humility is dead. Fidelity is dead. Decency is dead. It is the blight of humanity. Death moral and spiritual death in all her hideous and ghastly power reigns around us. Men are indeed dead "dead in trespasses and sins." What do we need? What is the secret longing of our hearts? What is the crying agony of our prayers? Is it for any human thing we seek? No.
No harm came to the North Dakota, and that night, the steering-gear being repaired, I gave orders to sail for San Francisco." To say that the United States was stunned is but to expose the inadequacy of language. The whole world was stunned. It confronted that blight of the human brain, the unprecedented.
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