Lights and Shadows of New York Life: Or, The Sights and Sensations of the Great City. A Work Descriptive of the City of New York in All Its Various Phases ...

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National Publishing Company, 1872 - Broj stranica: 849
 

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Stranica 613 - Every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with a quick child any medicine, drug or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instrument or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother...
Stranica 824 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Stranica 824 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Stranica 42 - If any one during my administration shall appeal, I will make him a foot shorter, and send the pieces to Holland, and let him appeal in that way.
Stranica 39 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference.
Stranica 39 - His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking.
Stranica 40 - His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly an hour to each; he smoked and doubted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the fourand-twenty.
Stranica 824 - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he knoweth not that the dead are there ; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Stranica 180 - ... widow, or if no widow, any child or children under the age of sixteen years...
Stranica 636 - What these relations shall be is one of the most interesting, and, at the same time, one of the most difficult, of the many problems with which we, or our successors, must deal.

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