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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. "
The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson - Page 259
by British essayists - 1819
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The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1835 - 344 pages
...to three score years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Thau fee the doctor tor a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend, God never made his works for man to mend. Phœbe Burrows received the youth to whom her early vows had been plighted,...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...food; Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood ; But we their sons, a pamper'd raee of men, Are n fte the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for care on eiercise depend: God never made oil work...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...their Toil strung the nerves and purified the blood : But we their sons, a pamperM race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better...depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. The tree of knowledge once in Eden plac'd, Was easy found, but was forbid the taste : Oh, had ourgrandsire...
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Gamonia, Or, The Art of Preserving Game: And an Improved Method of Making ...

Lawrence Rawstorne - 1837 - 250 pages
...like the country squire of old. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctors for a nauseous draught, The wise for cure on exercise depend, God never made his work for man to mend. .At no period was the Squirearchy of Britain more engaged in useful occupations than at the present...
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Gamonia, Or, The Art of Preserving Game: And an Improved Method of Making ...

Lawrence Rawstorne - 1837 - 280 pages
...like the country squire of old. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctors for a nauseous draught, The wise for cure on exercise depend, God never made his work for man to mend. At no period was the Squirearchy of Britain more engaged in useful occupations than at the present...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...blood; But we their sons, a ратртМ race of men. Are dwindled down to threescore years and tin. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. ÍTbe wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made bis work for man to mead.' X. No. 117.] Saturday,...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...their Toil strung the nerves and purified the hlood : But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unhought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draughs. The wise for cure on esercise depend ; God never...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 36-37

742 pages
...Nor hope a heaven of joy to gain In hearts with frailty fraught ! FRITZ. ARCHERY. " Better to sweat in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor...depend, God never made His work for man to mend." — DRYDEN. " We deem it great pittio to suffer this exoellente exercise to go to decay amongst us."—...
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The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History ...

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...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 51

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...
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