 | Sir Walter Raleigh - British Guiana - 1751 - 418 pages
...more he will delight in it ; and the older he groweth, the more he fhall be fubject: to it ; for it dulleth the Spirits, and deftroyeth the Body, as Ivy...curelefs Canker pafs not thy Youth, nor fuch a beaftly Infection thy old Age } for then mall all thy Life be but as the Life of a Beaft, and after thy Death,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley - 1806 - 482 pages
...the older he groweth, the more he shall be subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernel of the nut. Take heed, therefore, that such a cureless canker pass not thy... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...the elder he groweth, the more he shall be subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernel of the nut. SIR WALTER RALEGH. TAKE heed, therefore, that such a cureless... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...the elder he groweth, the more he shall be subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm...the kernel of the nut. Take heed, therefore, that such a careless canker pass not thy youth, nor such a beastly infection thy old age ; for then shall... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...the elder he groweth, the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm...the kernel of the nut. Take heed, therefore, that such a careless canker pass not thy youth, nor such a beastly infection thy old age; for then shall... | |
 | 1821 - 510 pages
...and the elder he groweth, the more he shall be subject to it : it dulleth the spirits and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernel of the nut. Take heed, therefore, that such a cureless canker pass not thy... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...the older he groweth, the more he shall be subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that ingendereth in the kernel of a nut. Take heed, therefore, that such a careless canker pass not thy... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...the elder he groweth, the more he shall be subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm...the kernel of the nut. Take heed, therefore, that such a careless canker pass not thy youth, nor such a beastly infection thy old age ; for then shall... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body, as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernel of the nut. Take heed therefore that such a cureless canker pass not thy... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...elder he groweth the rrtbre he 'shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree; or as the worm that ingenderetu in thekernel of the nut.— Sir W. Raleigh. LIII. Great spirits bear misfortunes hardly:... | |
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... for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness ; for the longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it ; and the... 
