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Quotation from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

“it was as vain to attempt sweating me as a deal board”

Henry Fielding (spoken by Mr. Ward, reported by Fielding)

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Introduction (winter-spring 1754) (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text))

Ward's verdict on the failure of his diaphoretic medicines to act on Fielding's wasted body.

Citation: "it was as vain to attempt sweating me as a deal board" — Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Introduction (winter-spring 1754) (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text)). (id fielding-journal-of-a-voyage-to-lisbon-q4)

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