 | Luigi Cornaro - Centenarians - 1903 - 224 pages
...part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - Aging - 1904 - 386 pages
...him. When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gout and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Addison. " ANCORA IMPARE " was Michael Angelo's motto on one of his last drawings. He was walking alone... | |
 | English literature - 1906 - 578 pages
...part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are... | |
 | Malpractice - 1903 - 412 pages
...my part when I behold a fashionable table set in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. — Joseph Addison, in The Spectator. PHYSICIANS' FEES FROM RICH PATIENTS. With regard to the enormous... | |
 | F. O. Havens - 1990 - 110 pages
...my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishea. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish.... | |
 | William H. Hay - 1993 - 142 pages
...my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes."— ADDISON. "Coffee Lies" "A SUBSCRIBER sends us the following, which, with -t*- various modifications,... | |
 | Roy Porter - Body and soul in literature - 2004 - 600 pages
...a Fashionable Table set out in all its Magnificence, I fancy that I see Gouts and Dropsies, Feavers and Lethargies, with other innumerable Distempers lying in Ambuscade among the Dishes.' Anti-doctor satire was fashionable - Samuel Garth's cynical Dispensary (1699) had just proved a best-seller... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - English language - 1959 - 358 pages
...when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see 25 gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - Conduct of life - 1806 - 402 pages
...part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in nil its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. 22. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1912 - 826 pages
...part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gout and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. "Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are... | |
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For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. 
