"Valetudinary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the benefits of the Revolution they commemorate. I confess to you, Sir, I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the Constitution its daily bread. It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary; it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
