...Clerk of the Mount Zion turnpike road, would allow him time to pen. They were these : " Better to rove in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught;" and he was sure no one there would deny that hunting, of all pursuits, was best calculated to restore...

...is actuated by the intellect, the other by the senses.' ' Better gather health in fields, unhought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise...depend, God never made his work for man to mend.' " We may, however, say of the amusements of some, as Pliny to his son, " They might put their hours...

...Toil strung their nerves, and purified their blood ; But we, their sons, a pamper'd race of men. Are dwindled down to three-score years and ten. Better...unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. DRYDKN. Voltaire gives us a very pleasant story of Caul, a voluptuary who could be managed with difficulty...

...JttKteratim consists in repeating the same letter or letters, at certain intervals; as, , Better to Ann! in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The Strophe was that part of the ancient hymn which was sung by the Greek chorus, in turning from east...

...his son's time was not used to more advantage, he consoled himself with the idea of Dryden's — " Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for his nauseous draught." It was certainly the better alternative of the two ; so Compton for the present...

...trade. Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt infields for health imbonght, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend: God never mode his work for man to rneiid." Amono- the early Egyptians, as among many more modern nations, the...

...spurious accoutrement. Indeed, we appear to have parted from the advice given by John Dryden in 1680 — "Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, "Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught." These medicines, paraded as sleeping-tablets, pain relievers, sedatives, tranquillizers, euphoriants,...

...food; Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood; But we, their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. "Better...depend; God never made his work, for man to mend." Although elevated blood cholesterol is often associated with atherosclerosis, the nature and extent...

...Jane Brody is not alone in her endorsement of exercise. In 1 700 John Dryden penned these verses : Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought. Than...depend ; God never made his work for man to mend."?* Modern researchers have found that regular exercise offers a host of health benefits unknown in earlier...

...physic, were perceived to be the key to health. This lay sagacity was encapsulated in Dryden's lines: Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than...depend; God never made his work, for man to mend. 6 mid-seventeenth-century Bedfordshire physician, John Symcotts, but it was the clerical practitioner,...