Poems on various subjects; with some essays in prose, letters to correspondents, &c., and a treatise on health : dedicated to Charles Boyle, Lord Viscount Dungarvan / By Samuel Bowden.

  • Bowden, Samuel, active 1733-1761.
Date:
1754
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Credit: Poems on various subjects; with some essays in prose, letters to correspondents, &c., and a treatise on health : dedicated to Charles Boyle, Lord Viscount Dungarvan / By Samuel Bowden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3+4 ] amongft the number of their heroes and tutelar dei- tys. However various and oppofite the complexions, the cuftoms, and opinions of mankind in different ages and climates, this has been the mo ft univerfal ob« je<ft, on which all defiles have fix'd, and all paffions center'd at laft. Various are the treatifes which have been com* pos'd on the fubjed: of Health ; this has employ'd the pens as well as the purfes of the wifeft and richeft in all ages. This has exercis'd the labour of the chymift, the penetration of philofophers, and the ambition of mighty princes. But after all thefe learned refearches, it certainly depends more on the condud of life, and the difpofition of the heart, than on the painful purfuits and dreams of chymifts, and the idle reverys of the brain ; and is undoubtedly more the true genuine refult, and native offspring of praftice and experience, than of theory and fpecula- tion. If it is taught, and nurs’d up in the fchools of philofophy ; it is found in the fields of Ample pea* fants, and illiterate fwains $ and thrives and bloffoms mod in defart heaths and barren mountains : And here godlike temperance fmiling with open arms, and a thoufand blefiings, invites us to her plain and frugal, but happy and voluptuous table, encircled with all the graces, and attended by blooming Hebe ; more voluptuous, and truly luxurious, than the mod pompous