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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 Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and ... - Page 189
by John Dryden - 1760
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The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing ..., Volume 1

William Kitchiner - Cab and omnibus service - 1827 - 326 pages
...and purified the Blood: 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 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."...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...and purify'd the blood; 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 unbought, Than fee the docter for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend: God never made his work for man...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...and purify'd the blood; 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 unbought, Than fee the docter for n nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend: God never made his work for man...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 11

1846 - 512 pages
...By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food, Toil strung the nerves and purified the blood ; Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught." Addison says, in another part of the Spectator — " Wo find that those parts are...
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The Aurora Borealis: Or Flashes of Wit; Calculated to Drown Dull Care and ...

Anecdotes - 1831 - 256 pages
...truth, the physic of reason 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 fee the doctors for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; GOD never made his work for...
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The Student's Manual: Designed, by Specific Directions, to Aid in Forming ...

John Todd - Character - 1835 - 414 pages
...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 fee the doctor for a nauseous draught; The wise, for cure, on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend."...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...and purified the blood ; But we their sons, a pamper'd raee of men, Are dwindled down to threescore been @ " 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
...and purified the blood : But we their sons, a pamperM race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. 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...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 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.'...
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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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