 | 502 pages
...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 ! " If the above is applicable to private dinners, how much more is it to public feasts, where too... | |
 | Edward Barry - 1806 - 208 pages
...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, with other innumerable...distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes." ,' •. * . . . They, who by plentiful and luxurious meals are in the habit of gorging the stomach,... | |
 | Edward Barry - 1806 - 244 pages
...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, with other innumerable...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... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 374 pages
...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." Lewis Cornaro, a Venitian of noble extraction, was memorable for having lived healthful and active... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 362 pages
...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." Lewis Cornaro, a Venitian of noble extraction, was memorable for having lived healthful and active... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...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. * Diog. Laert. Vita Philosoph. lil>. vi. sap. 2. n. 6. Nature delights in the most plain and simple... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...fancy that I see gouts and dropsies fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, Iving in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in...most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keep« to one dish. Herbs arc the-food of this species, fish of that, ami flesh of a third. Man falls... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 590 pages
...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 other 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.) - 1816 - 308 pages
...fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuseade among the dishes. 22. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet....man, keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this speeies, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Mao falls upon every thjng that eomes in his way ; not... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 600 pages
...when I hehold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts ¡tnrt dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable...distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes."* Our forefathers subsisted like our prisoners upon bread and water, or at least their fare was little... | |
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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. 
