 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pagine
...is by nature a field animal, and feems deflined to rife with the fuá, and to fpend a large porlion of his time in the open air, to inure his body to robuft exercifes and the inclemency of the feafons, end to make a plain homely repaft only when hunger... | |
 | Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pagine
...defeated the purposes of nature, which destined him to rise with the sun, to spend a large por. tion of his time in the open air, to inure his body to robust exercises, to be exposed to the inclemency of the seasons, and to live on plain and simple food. OBJECTIONS TO... | |
 | 1823 - 856 pagine
...how ftw persons, in these latter times, arrive at that period which nature seems to have detigned ! Man is by nature a field animal, and seems destined...with the sun, and to spend a large portion of his tune in the open air, to inure his body to robust exercises and the inclemency of the seasons, and... | |
 | 1830 - 410 pagine
...nature appears evidently to have marked, as the limits of man's earthly existence. Man seems designed to rise with the sun, and to spend a large portion...exercises, and the inclemency of the seasons; and to support himself upon plain and simple food, taken at such intervals as the calls of appetite indicate.... | |
 | 1830 - 398 pagine
...nature appears evidently to have marked, as the limits of man's earthly existence. Man seems designed to rise with the sun, and to spend a large portion...of his time in the open air ; to inure his body to _ \ robust exercises, and the inclemency of the seasons ; and to support himself upon plain and simple... | |
 | Health - 1858 - 374 pagine
...nature appears evidently to have marked as the limits of man's earthly existence ! Man seems designed to rise with the sun, and to spend a large portion...air, to inure his body to robust exercises and the changes of the seasons, and to support himself upon plain and simple food, taken at such intervals... | |
 | 1868 - 798 pagine
...the end of ten days summer had fairly set in ; and Mason found it possible, and indeed profitable, to spend a large portion of his time in the open air. He was unable either to ride or to walk ; and the only form of exercise which he found practicable... | |
 | 1868 - 784 pagine
...tin' end of ten days summer had fairly set in ; and Mason found it possible, and indeed profitable, to spend a large portion of his time in the open air. He was unable either to ride or to walk ; and the only form of exercise which he found practicable... | |
 | Henry James - 1885 - 288 pagine
...the end of ten days summer had fairly set in ; and Mason found it possible, and indeed profitable, to spend a large portion of his time in the open air. He was unable either to ride or to walk, and the only form of exercise which he found practicable was... | |
 | 1907 - 912 pagine
...the end of ten days summer h:id fairly set in ; and Mulford found it possible and indeed profitable to spend a large portion of his time in the open air. He was unable to either ride or to walk ; and the only form of exercise which he found practicable... | |
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In the earlieft ages, we are informed that human life was protracted to a very extraordinary length ; yet how few perfons, in... 
