Confessions of a water-patient : in a letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq.

  • Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Confessions of a water-patient : in a letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blessed dew, let them, wliile the organs an> yet sound, and the nerves yet un- shattered, devote an autumn to the water-cure. And you, () parents ! who, too in- dolent, too much slaves to custom, to endure change for yourselves, to re- nounce for awhile your artificial natures, but who still covet for your children hardy constitutions, pure tastes, and abstemious habits—who wish to see tluun grow u[) with a manly disdain of luxtiry—with a vigorous in- difference to climate—with a full sense of the value of health, not alone for itself, but for the powers it elicits, and the virtues with which it is intimately H