An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1725
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    happened fo much Sicknefs, Pain and Mifery, fo unhappy Lives, and fuch wretch¬ ed Ends, as we now behold among Men. But even in this our lapfed Eflate and Condition, had the Dictates of Na¬ ture and Reafon} not to fay Religion, been followed ; we might have paifed our Days in Indolence (at leaft from chronical Diftempers) if not innocent Pleafures, arrived at a good old Age, with’ our Senfes free, and our rational Faculties clear, and at laft departed in Peace, as a Lamp goes out for Want of Oil. And let the Gentlemen of Wit and Firey of Banter and Sneer, hug them- felves ever fo much in their beaded Tranquillity and Security? gratify their PafJionst Appetites and Humours to the full, and defpife Futurity and Whining ; I dare promife, when the Farce is ended, and the laft Minutes are drawing on5 they would prefer a Life thus ledy and an End fo calm, to all the Pleafures of Lewdnefs and Senfuality, and the Bounces of a falfe and ignorant Security, FINISA
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