 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 oldal
...it all with patience, and without melancholy, because I must bear it whether I will or no. Pbysical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life ; some are taxed higher, and somn lower, but all pay something. My philosopby teaches me to reflect, how much higher, rather than... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 302 oldal
...repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive dream. Miscellaneous Works,™. *K. Physical ills. Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched...taxed higher and some lower, but all pay something. /*. ;v. 2?I. The taxes that nature lays upon old age are very heavy, and I would rather that death... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 576 oldal
...Adieu ! To THE BISHOP OF WATERFORD. (Works, vol. iv. p. 271.) Bath, November 22, 1757. MY DEAR LOBD, I SHALL make but a very unsatisfactory return to your...compared with the exquisite torments of gout, stone, &c. I The faculties of my mind are, thank God, not yet much impaired ; and they comfort me in my worst... | |
 | William Henry Craig - 1907 - 456 oldal
...both to part."1 Then to Dr. Chevenix he confides a little later, as we have seen (22 November) : " Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched...rather than how much lower, I might have been taxed." A truly philosophical reflection. That, notwithstanding his ailments, he occasionally exercised the... | |
 | William Henry Craig - 1907 - 458 oldal
...both to part."1 Then to Dr. Chevenix he confides a little later, as we have seen (22 November) : " Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched...pay something. My philosophy teaches me to reflect » Utter of 4 July, 1757. how much higher, rather than how much lower, I might have been taxed." A... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 288 oldal
...halfcloistered wit, deaf and broken in health, to have been, but jocund never. " Physical ills," he writes, " are the taxes laid upon this wretched life ; some...rather than how much lower, I might have been taxed." And again: " I read a good deal, and vary occasionally my dead company. I converse with grave folios... | |
 | 1915 - 652 oldal
...vexations; they will not be able to assail us in the same degree if we remember some such words as these: "Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched...rather than how much lower, I might have been taxed." — Chesterfield. DANGER SIGNALS FOR THE MOTHER * THE presence of fever in a young child should always... | |
 | Roger Coxon - 1925 - 348 oldal
...former would be defeated by the latter.1 To the Bishop of Waterford. Bath, November 22, 1757. . .' . All mineral waters, and the whole materia medica,...might have been taxed. How gentle are my physical ills 1 Letters of Lord Chesterfield to Lord Huntingdon, p. 119. • Censura Literaria, vol. IX, (1815),... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 oldal
...thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. Sir Thomas Browne, R, 93. PHYSICAL ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched...taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. Chesterfield, 1192. DISEASE generally begins that equality which death completes. Dr. "Johnson, R,... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 522 oldal
...good physician ever takes physic. Unknown - (See p. 278) PHYSICAL Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched...taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope Volume Five #2031, 22 November, 1757 (p. 2265) Livermore, Mary... | |
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life ; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. My philosophy teaches me to reflect how much higher, rather than how much lower, I might have been taxed. 
