 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...! " The insinuation was that the painting itself was bad. Note Addison's innuendo in the following: "Sir William Temple is very much puzzled to find out...why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and overrun the world with Goths and Vandals, as it did formerly ; but... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 pages
...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...why the northern hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and overrun the world with Goths and Vandals, as it did formerly ; but... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...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...why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and over-run the world with Goths and Vandals as it did formerly ; but... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1853 - 576 pages
...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...out a reason why the northern hive as he calls it, doea not send out such prodigious swarms, and over-run the world with Goths and Vandals as it did formerly;... | |
 | Thad M. Stevens - Medicine - 1871 - 592 pages
...country, which, according to the late census, has 74,000 doctors?) " Sir "William Temple," he continues, " is very much puzzled to find out a reason why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms and overrun the world with Goths and Vandals as it did formerly ; but had... | |
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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... 
