Among folk too constitutionally weak, or too constitutionally lazy, whichever it may be, to relish up-stream work, it is a common practice to get a boat at Oxford, and row down.
Les gens de constitution trop fragile, ou d’un naturel trop paresseux pour apprécier la remontée du fleuve a la rame ont coutume de louer un canot a Oxford et de descendre le courant.