 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 442 pages
...p. 205, 4to. * " When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence," says Addison, " I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." s Levit. ch. xi. Jews were not expensive at their entertainments. Nehemiah, while governor of Judah... | |
 | Luigi Cornaro - 1823 - 160 pages
...the body ? For 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...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... | |
 | 1824 - 348 pages
...seen him devour foul, fish, and flesh; swallow oil and vinegar, wines and spices; throw down sallads of twenty different herbs, sauces of an hundred ingredients,...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... | |
 | 1824 - 292 pages
...SPECTATOR. No. 195. 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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...unnatural motions and counter-ferments.mustsuch a medley of -intemperance produce in the body! For my port, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its...innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. 10 Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs... | |
 | Chandler Robbins - 1825 - 128 pages
...observed, that when he saw a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, he fancied that he saw gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambush among the dishes ; and we may add, that when we see students hurrying through their repast,... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...bestow upon his tomb. — Johnson. When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, \ fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies,...innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishe?. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...They were consumed by the discommodities of the country, and the distemperature of the air. Abbvt. When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its...see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with innumerable other distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Addison. A night of fretful passions... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pages
...world.—fenn'i Frtiitt of Solitude. When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, 1 fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies,...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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...confections and fruits of numberless sweets and flavors. 9 What unnatural motions and counter-ferments must such a medley of intemperance produce in the...innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. 10 Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs... | |
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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. 
