Deformity: an essay / By William Hay.

  • William Hay
Date:
MDCCLV. [1755]
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Credit: Deformity: an essay / By William Hay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their own Power to preferve it. If every Virtue in its Confequence is its own Re^ ward; Temperance is eminently fo; and every one immediately feels its good Ef- fed:. And I am perfuaded that many might arrive at Cornaro*s Age, if they did but follow his Example. On thinking upon this Subjed, I have adopted many Maxims, which to the World will feern Paradoxes; as certain true Geographical Theorems do to thofe, who are unac¬ quainted with the Globe. I hold as Ar¬ ticles of Faith (but which may be con¬ demned as Herefies in many a General Council affembled about a large Table) That the fmallelt Liquors are bed. That there never was a good Bpwl of Punch ; nor a good Bottle of Champaign, Bur- gundy, or Claret. That the beft Dinner is one Difh. That an Entertainment grows worfe in proportion as the Number of Diibes increafe. That aFaft is better than T a Lord Mayor’s Feaft. That no Conoif- feur
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