| General reader - 1827 - 246 pàgines
...Johnson. When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, \ fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other 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.... | |
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pàgines
...Solitude. When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, 1 fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other 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 pàgines
...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. 10 Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs... | |
| Charles Buck - 1831 - 418 pàgines
...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 Venetian of noble extraction, was memorable for having lived healthful and active... | |
| 1849 - 522 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1836 - 932 pàgines
...part, when I behold a fashionable table set out hi all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other 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 are... | |
| 1836 - 1118 pàgines
...a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fever» Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pàgines
...when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnifiгепсе, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and ь simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs... | |
| John Taylor - 1839 - 258 pàgines
...Luxury.—When I behold a fashionable table set out ia all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other 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... | |
| John William Carleton - 1849 - 522 pàgines
...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... | |
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