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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. "
The New sporting magazine - Page 136
1849
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

502 pages
...of twenty dift'erent herbs, sauces of an hundred ingredients, confections and fruits of numberless sweets and flavours ? What unnatural motions and counter...coarse meats, unboiled vegetables, rancid pastry, ucid fruit, and sour wines, add a hundredfold to the evil already complained of. But, as Byron writes,...
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The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the ..., Volume 3

1794 - 450 pages
...confections and fruits of numberless sweets and flavours ? What unnatural motions and counter-ferments must such a medley of intemperance produce in the...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...
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The Connecticut evangelical magazine, Volume 6

1805 - 590 pages
...vivacity, and his usual elegance, remarks ; " When I behold a fashionable tabte, set out in all ns magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies lying in ambuscade among the Wishes." Spettator, vol. iii. Jfa. 195. VOL. VI. NO. 9. water was more...
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Select British Classics, Volume 13

1803 - 402 pages
...and flavours ? What unnatural motions and counterferments must such a medley of intemperance produoe in the body ? For my part, when I behold a fashionable...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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Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride ...

Edward Barry - 1806 - 244 pages
...intempeperance in diet, Mr. Addison has given this expressive description : " For my part," says he, " when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." They, who by plentiful and luxurious meals are in the habit of gorging the stomach, and loading the...
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Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride ...

Edward Barry - 1806 - 208 pages
...intempeperance in diet, Mr. Addison has given this expressive description : " For my part," says he, " when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." ,' •. * . . . They, who by plentiful and luxurious meals are in the habit of gorging the stomach,...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 296 pages
...confections and fruits of numberless sweets and flavours ? What unnatural motions and counter-ferments must such a medley of intemperance produce in the...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...
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Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck ...: Containing The Young ...

Charles Buck - 1808 - 362 pages
...confections and fruits of numberless sweets and flavours ? What counter-ferments must such a medly of intemperance produce in the body ! For my part,...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." Lewis Cornaro, a Venitian of noble extraction, was memorable for having lived healthful and active...
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Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck, Author of the ..., Volume 3

Charles Buck - 1808 - 374 pages
...confections and fruits of numberless sweets and flavours ? What counter-ferments must such a mediy of intemperance produce in the body ! For my part,...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." Lewis Cornaro, a Venitian of noble extraction, was memorable for having lived healthful and active...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 pages
...produce in the body ? For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificencet I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lyingin ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal...
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