 If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of...  Harrison's British Classicks - Pagina 441786Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pagine
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men, the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people. This body of men in our own country may be described like the... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pagine
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men ; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people." This body of men he compares to the British army in Caesar's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pagine
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men : the sight of them is enough to make a man serious ; for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people. Sir William Temple is very much puzzled to find out a reason why... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pagine
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough tu make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people. Sir William Temple is very much puizled to find out a reason why... | |
 | John Tricker CONQUEST - 1859 - 32 pagine
...supervening to disease treated by art are the direct produce of that art. Addison, in the Spectator, said : "We may lay it down as a maxim, that, when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people, and this body of men in our country may be described like the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 pagine
...to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people. Sir William Temple is very much puzzled to find out a reason why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and over-run... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 pagine
...of physic " a most formidable body of men," the mere sight of whom is enough to make a man serious ; for " we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people." This body of men, in our own country, he adds, " may be described... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 pagine
...which a man may rise to be chief minister. The first is by knowing how, with prudence, to dispose of we may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people. This body of men in our own country may be described like the British... | |
 | William Sharp - 1865 - 304 pagine
...serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin <f people. Sir William Temple is very much puzzled to find out a reason why the northern hive, as he calla it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and over-run... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pagine
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men ; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people. * This body of men in our own country may be described like the... | |
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