Volume 1

Institutes of health / [Anon].

Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Institutes of health / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    delivered from thofe remains of life, which the tortures of a chronical diftemper render more infupportable than death itfelf. Even the idea of them makes numbers look on the melancholic flroke of an apoplexy as fomething very defirable, not confidering, that if it cuts off pain, it alfo cuts off a num¬ ber of thofe years which were their un¬ doubted birth-right, and which their fel¬ ling for the gratification of falfe tafles of luxury .forms, at befl, but a bubble’s bar¬ gain. Yet, and humanity itfelf fhudders at the thought of it, the fiftem of life pregnant with all thefe horrors, thefe tortures, linger¬ ing difeafes, acute diflempers, or fudden death, is adlually the prefent fiftem. Can it then be denied, that the men of pleafure are on thejufteft prefumption, the men of pain ? How few confider what however is fo demonftrably juft, that the greateft and trueft pleafures come from the inftindtive wants
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