Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life; with the means of correcting a bad constitution ... / Translated from the Italian.

  • Luigi Cornaro
Date:
1823
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    them, by proving that the happiness I enjoyed was not confined to me, but common to all mankind, and that every man might equally enjoy it; since I was but a mere mortal, com- posed, like all others, of the four elements; and endued, besides existence and life, with sensible and intellectual faculties, which are common to all men. For it has pleased the Almighty to bestow on his favourite creature, man, these extraordinary blessings and favours above other animals, which enjoy only the sensible perceptions, in order that such bless- ings and favours may be the means of keeping him long in health; so that the length of days is a universal favour granted by the Deity, and not by nature and the stars. But man, being in his youthful days more of the sensual than of the rational] animal, is apt to yield to sensible impressions; and, when he afterwards arrives at the age of forty and fifty, he ought to consider that he has attained - the noon of life, by the vigour of youth, and a good tone of stomach ; natural blessings, which favoured him in ascending the hill; but that he must now think of going down, and ap- proaching the grave with a heavy weight of years on his back; and that old age is the re- verse of youth, as much as order is the reverse
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