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Through it all, too, he battled against a persistent ill-health, which unfitted him for work for months on end, and, even at the best, would permit his reading or writing only a few minutes at a time. Like the others, Parkman was born in Boston, and, as a boy, was so delicate that he was allowed to run wild in the country, acquiring a love of nature which is apparent in all his books.
I swear that all the thousand miseries of this hard fight, and ill-health, the most terrific of them all, shall never chain us down. By the river Styx it shall not! Two fellows from a nameless spot in Annandale shall yet show the world the pluck that is in Carlyles." Let that be your spirit to-day. You are citizens of no mean city, members of no common state, heirs of no supine empire.
On being answered in the negative he shook his head "then as they have let him escape they have got nothing." Fate ordained better for the Count of Hogstraten. Compelled by ill-health to travel slowly, he was met by the report of this event while he was yet on his way. He hastily turned back, and fortunately escaped destruction.
She looked forty, yet there was something still girlish in the pose of her black-clad figure which seemed to suggest a shorter tale of years. Raven dark hair, lustreless and dull, framed a pale, emaciated face from which ill-health had stripped almost all that had once been beautiful.
"Well" Nan regarded her contemplatively "it rubs in all the dreadful things that may happen to you like ill-health, and poverty, and 'for worse' whatever that may mean and dins into your ears the fact that nothing but death can release you." "You're looking at the wrong side of it, Nan.
Rather we reverence the glorious conquest of the spirit over the weakness and limitations of the flesh. Some of us have even rushed to the opposite extreme and preached ill-health as a kind of sanctity, in our just admiration for those who have battled against it and shown us the spirit dominant over the flesh. But, it will be urged, ill-health is quite another kind of disharmony than vice.
Confined to sedentary occupations, stooping over desks and counters in close rooms, unable to obtain that fair share of bodily exercise which nature demands, and in continual mental effort, their nerves and brain have been excited at the expense of their lungs, their digestion, and their whole nutritive system. Their complexions show a general ill-health.
"Florian not well! So there's another misfortune." "His ill-health is rather ill-humour. Biddy will take care of him, father." "I do not choose that he should be looked after by Biddy in solitude. I suppose that somebody has been teasing him." "No, father," said Edith, positively. "Has anyone been speaking to him about his religion?" "Not a word," said Edith.
Disappointments and ill-health had reduced him to the shadow of himself in person, and his mind, of course, shared his body's disaffection. A sick person, as all experience in practice has proved over and over again, is hardly to be called a responsible being.
Ferris had noticed that all his countrywomen, past their girlhood, seemed to be sick, he did not know how or why; he supposed it was all right, it was so common. In Mrs. Vervain's case, though she talked a great deal about her ill-health, he had noticed it rather less than usual, she had so great spirit.
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