178. Drinking; Exercise
"Exercise!! I never heard that he used any: he might, for aught
I know, walk to the alehouse; but I believe he was always
carried home again."
Piozzi: Anecdotes
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939. Choice; Diversion; Exercise;
Hunting
"The 
necessity of action is not only
demonstrable from the fabric
of the body, but evident from observation of the universal
practice of mankind, who for the preservation of health in those
whose rank or wealth exempts them from the necessity of lucrative
labour, have invented sports and diversions, though not of equal
use to the world with manual trades, yet of equal fatigue to
those who practice them, and differing only from the drudgery of
the husbandman or manufacturer, as they are acts of choice, and
therefore performed without the painful sense of compulsion. The
huntsman rises early, pursues his game through all the dangers
and obstructions of the chase, swims rivers, and scales
precipices, till he returns home no less harassed than the
soldier, and has perhaps sometimes incurred as great hazard or
wounds or death: yet he has no motive to incite his ardour; he
is neither subject to the commands of a general, nor dreads any
penalties for neglect and disobedience; he has neither profit
nor honour to expect from his perils and his conquests; but
toils without the hope of mural or civic garlands, and must
content himself with the praise of his tenants and
companions."
Johnson: Rambler #85 (January 8, 1751)
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940. Exercise
"Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its
own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if
it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much
misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the
body."
Johnson: Rambler #85 (January 8, 1751)
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942. Exercise; Mortality
"Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are
decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can
make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they
shall be disjoined by an easy separation."
Johnson: Rambler #85 (January 8, 1751)
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