 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Abolitionists - 1848 - 646 pages
...closed, I have ridden 500 miles, and walked 1500. " ' Better to hunt in fields for health untaught, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, — The wise, for cure, on exercise depend.' " So sings Dryden, and what he preached, I practise. " I shall send you a basket to-night, as proof... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1848 - 224 pages
...long-liv'd fathers earn'd their food, Toil strung their nerves and purified their blood : Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught ! " Whatever truth there may be in this view of the subject, which will be thought by some open to... | |
 | Nicholas Assheton - 1848 - 228 pages
...long-liv'd fathers earn'd their food, Toil strung their nerves and purified their blood : Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught ! " Whatever truth there may be in this view of the subject, which will be thought by some open to... | |
 | William Horsell - Hydrotherapy - 1850 - 266 pages
...their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to three-score years aiid ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. — Dryden. Voltaire gives us a very pleasant story of Caul, a voluptuary who could be managed with... | |
 | 1850 - 340 pages
...patient, it is that which bears the charm. The following precept is libellous. " Better to roam the fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught." In our reprobation of the polypharmacy of the ancients, which certainly in some instances amounted... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...whilst cultivating his mind, improves, by the most natural means, his body also. The wise for health on exercise depend, God never made his work for man to mend. BURNING TUE DEAD. A society has been formed for the purpose of substituting burning the dead, instead... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1852 - 266 pages
...Are dwindled dawn to threescore Years and ten. Better to hunt in Fields for Health unbought, Than see the Doctor for a nauseous Draught, The Wise for Cure...depend : God never made his Work for Man to mend. CHAPTER XL THE COVERLEY WITCH. Ipsi sibi somniafingunt, VIRG. rpHERE are some Opinions in which a Man... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1852 - 264 pages
...Are dwindled down to threescore Years and ten. Setter to hunt in Fields for Health unbought, Than see the Doctor for a nauseous Draught, The Wise for Cure...depend : God never made his Work for Man to mend. CHAPTER XI. THE COVERLEY WITCH. Ipsi sibi somnia fingimt. VIRO. are some Opinions in which a Man should... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than see the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend. To Sir Godfrey Kneller. Shadows are but privations of the light; Yet, when we walk, they shoot before... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pages
...we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor...depend : God never made his work for man to mend." KUDOELt. X. No. 117. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1711. Ipsi sibi somnia fingunt. VIRO. Bcii. viii. 108. Their... | |
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Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made his work for man to mend. 
