| Ebenezer Sibly - Astrology - 1802 - 420 pages
...urengthening the body tends to weaken it. Every man fhould lay himfelf under fome fort of neceffity to take exercife. Indolence, like other vices when...become quite averfe from it afterwards. This is the caie of nioft hypochondriac and gouty people, which renders their difeafes in a great meaiure incurable.... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 852 pages
...vital, and natural functions, which constitutes a very considerable part of every disease *. Indeed, indolence, like other vices, when indulged, gains...ground, and at length becomes agreeable. Hence many, v.-ho are fond of exercise, gradually lose all the relish for it. This is particularly the case with... | |
| Keith Imray - 1849 - 866 pages
...occasions diseases, and renders men useless to society, but promotes all manner of vice. Indolence, when indulged, gains ground, and at length becomes agreeable. Hence, many who were fond of exercise in the early part of life, become somewhat averse to it when more advanced in years. Idleness... | |
| Wooster Beach - 1851 - 930 pages
...occasions diseases and renders men useless to society, but promotes all manner of vice. Indolence, when indulged, gains ground, and at length becomes agreeable ; hence many who were fofji of exercise in the early part of life, become somewhat adverse to it when more advanced in years.... | |
| George Miller Beard - Hygiene - 1875 - 1090 pages
...occasions diseases, and rendere men useless to society, but promotes all manner of vice. Indolence, when indulged, gains ground, and at length becomes agreeable. Hence, many who were fond of exercise in the early part of life become somewhat averse to it when more advanced in years. Idleness... | |
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