Volume 2

A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's Magazine / [By John Walker].

Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's Magazine / [By John Walker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no less a term than ninety-five years, is an encouraging cir- cumstance to literary men ami valetudinarians. For their benefit I send it. J. Boerhadem. i( Quantum hue [soil, ad longaevitatem] conferat animus semper sibi similis, nullisque passiouibus in transvorsum raptus, elfari nequeo. “ Avus mens maternus D. Thomas Finckius (priori seculo libris, geometria rotundi, horoseopia, &c. hoc seculo libe- ris clarus; numcravit enim liberos, nepotes, pronepotes, abnepotes 97,) annum ingressus erat nonagesimum-sextum hac animi constantia, et diutius vitam in senio vegetam pro- traxisset, nisi febris filum abrupisset. Per totum vitte cur- sum a se pomparn removit, et usu rerum ornamenta metie- batur. Teneram retatem aegritudinibus habuit obnoxiam, nt medicos curse iliius prajfectus spoponderit parentibus, cmnes itinerum vias quas emensurus csset, auro se obduc- turuuj. Cseterum a longa peregriuatione redux, prognosti- cmji clusit temperantia et morum facilitate. Coercuit luxu- riam, gulam temperavit, cui tamen necessaria suggessit etiam durioris substantiae, quae libentius avidiusque appete- bat, quarn cupedias ; divitias aequis oculis aspexit, frugalita- tem coluit, et animum metu vel gaudioaffectum sub vincu- lis habuit, iracundiam lenivit, adversitates sprevit, etquan- quam liberorum, generorum, nepotum, abnepotum, affinium, amicorumque ssepius funera audiverit, et inter tot vitas grandaevse molestias versaretur, constanti tamen animo omnia perpessus nunquam lachrymas fudit nisi defunctsc uxoris, et bibliothecae vulcano consumptaj, memoria recurrente.” For the benefit of the English Reader, the above Account is thus translated. u It is inexpressible how much equability of temper, un- ruffled by passion, contributes to long life. My maternal grandfather, Thomas Fink, (who in the preceding century •was as distinguished by his learning, his skill in geometry, the horoscope, &c. as in the present by the number of his descendants, for lie had children, grand-children, great grand-children, and great great grand-children, to the num- ber of 97,) had by this uniformity of temper attained to his £H3th year, and might have reached to a vigorous old age, bad not a fever shortened his days. He studiously through life avoided show, measuring ornament by use. His tender