 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 - Seite 441786Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Sharp - 1894 - 244 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1896 - 346 Seiten
...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 a Reason why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious Swarms, and over-run... | |
 | 1901 - 1100 Seiten
...Cresar's description of the British Army. "Some of them slay from chariots and some on foot," and further, "We may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people"; and so I fear if Addison were present to-night to hear the title... | |
 | 1906 - 578 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1921 - 686 Seiten
...variants of "The surgeon buries his mistakes." Addison, in the Spectator, thought it good humor to write : "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... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 Seiten
...will cite, which makes excellent fun of the doctors of those times : 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... | |
 | 1909 - 488 Seiten
...Homoeopathy," by William Sharp, MD, FRS, Rugby, May 5, 1834. 'Sharp's Tracts. Reply, p. 12. March 24, 1710), "we may lay it -down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people." We would think that with such facts before them, there would result... | |
 | 1853 - 576 Seiten
...w r e 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... | |
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