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...body ! 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...innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes ! " If the above is applicable to private dinners, how much more is it to public feasts, where too... | |
 | Edward Barry - Conduct of life - 1806 - 244 pages
...my part," says he, " when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers, and lethargies,...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... | |
 | Edward Barry - Conduct of life - 1806 - 208 pages
...my part," says he, " when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers, and lethargies,...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." ,' •. * . . . They, who by plentiful and luxurious meals are in the habit of gorging the stomach,... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 362 pages
...body ! 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...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." Lewis Cornaro, a Venitian of noble extraction, was memorable for having lived healthful and active... | |
 | Charles Buck - Children - 1808 - 374 pages
...body ! 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...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." Lewis Cornaro, a Venitian of noble extraction, was memorable for having lived healthful and active... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...body ? 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...innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. * Diog. Laert. Vita Philosoph. lil>. vi. sap. 2. n. 6. Nature delights in the most plain and simple... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...body? 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, Iving in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 590 pages
...body ? For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, 1 fancy that 1 see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with...innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes*. Surely this author would agree that the indulgence of a riotous appetite in such various and improper... | |
 | John Wilson (D.D.) - Bible - 1816 - 308 pages
...body? for my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnifieenee, I faney, that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuseade among the dishes. 22. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but... | |
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confections and fruits of numberless sweets and flavours ? What unnatural motions and counter-ferments must such a medley of intemperance produce in the body ! For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy I... 
