 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 388 pages
...Toil strung their nerves and purified their blood ; lint •we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health untaught, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught ; He 'scapes the best who, nature to repair, Draws... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...had no skill as a sportsman — seeking merely exercise, and thinking, as Dryden says, that it was Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for his noxious draught.' \\ as there any harm in this ? and for Sir Egerton Brydges, of all men, to sneer... | |
 | 702 pages
...hunt the fields for health unbougbt, Thin fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. For cure the wise on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend." DBYOIN. Those who have ever experienced the pleasures of a rolling French screw-steamer, with a wind... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 pages
...food ; Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood : But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better...depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. ****** He 'scapes the best ; who, nature to repair, Draws physic from the fields in draughts of vital... | |
 | John Todd - 1839 - 116 pages
...food : Toil strung the nerves and purified the blood : But 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 fre the doctor for a nauseous draught ; The wise, for cure on exercise depend : God never made his... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...author had, the only day he hunted with them last year. ON TRAINING THE RACE-HORSE. BY COTHERSTONE. " The wise for cure on exercise depend, God never made his work for man to mend." CHAPTER VII. EXERCISE. In selecting this quotation from Dryden, it is for the purpose of comparison,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 496 pages
...their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to three-score yean and ten. Better to hunt the fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. For cure, the wise on exerciie depend ; GOD sever made his work for man to mend." Lastly, what is not... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1858 - 710 pages
...hunt the fields for health unbonght, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. For cure the wise on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend." DBYDEN. Those who have ever experienced the pleasures of a rolling French screw-steamer, with a wind... | |
 | I. G. Rosenstein - 1840 - 312 pages
...to hunt in field for health unbonght, Than feed the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for ease on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend. General directions for Exercise, aseerding to Walker. The best timo for exercises is whB«-;•tho.iHr'is.'cool,... | |
 | James Harris - 1841 - 616 pages
...to have employed this figure more frequently, or (like Virgil) with greater simplicity and strength. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than...depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. Fables. Pope sings in his Dunciad : Twas chatt'ring, grinning, mouthing, jabb'ring all ; And noise,... | |
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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. 
