 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1925 - 352 pages
...house." There the author had lived, it was prettily said, "in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, — but much more so, when he laughs, it adds... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 292 pages
...the kingdom, and in a retired thatch'd house, where I live in a constant endeavour to fence againsl: the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth ; being firmly persuaded, that every time a man smiles, — but much more so, when he laughs, it adds... | |
 | Medicine - 1926 - 640 pages
...humor, and his satire. "I live," he characteristically declared, "in constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth, being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles — but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1859 - 1450 pages
...To fence again = to defend. Tristram Shandy Dedic. I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health and other evils of life, by mirth. — b. I, ch. 10. This evil has been sufficiently fenced again by the prudent care of the Yorick family.... | |
 | Jacqueline Labrude Estenne - English fiction - 1995 - 468 pages
...la dédicace. "To the Right Honourable Mr. Pitt" : "I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth ; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, - but much more so, when he laughs, that it... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Fiction - 1996 - 468 pages
...the kingdom, and in a retired thatched house, where I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, - but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something... | |
 | Harold H. Dawley - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 180 pages
...manner, as discussed earlier. Develop a Sense of Humor "/ live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth. I am persuaded that every time a man smiles — but much more so when he laughs — it adds something... | |
 | Roy Porter - Body and soul in literature - 2004 - 600 pages
...the dedication he penned to that great and gouty invalid, William Pitt the Elder) 'to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth'. Yet mishap and mayhem, disease and death scar the novel: the mirth is black of hue. As we obliquely... | |
 | Peter McDonald - Health & Fitness - 2004 - 228 pages
...than feeling a woman's pulse. A Sentimental ¡ourney I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth. Tristam Shandy Dedication Imagine to yourself a little, squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of... | |
 | William Josephus Robinson - Medicine - 1917 - 488 pages
...Shakespeare says: "A light heart lives long." Sterne says : "I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, he adds something... | |
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I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something to this Fragment of Life. 
