The immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy & happy life : in three parts / by Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott.

Date:
1815
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Credit: The immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy & happy life : in three parts / by Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the pleasantest part o{ Padua, irfay be looked on as ] the most convenient and agreeable mansion in that ci* ty. 1 there make me apartments proper for the win- ter and summer, which serve as a shelter to defend me from the extreme heat of the one, and the rigid coldness of the other. I walk outin my gardens, along my canals and walks ; where I always meet with some little thing or other to do, which, at the same time, em- ploys and amuses me. I spend the months of j1fi7-il, May, Sefitember, and October, at my country house, which is the finest situ- tion imaginable : the air of it is good, the avenues neat, *he gardens magnificent, the waters clear and plentiful; and this seat may well pass for an inchanted palace. Sometimes I take a walk to my Villa, all whose streets terminate at a large square ; in the midst of which is a pretty neat church, and large enough for the bigness of the parish. Through this Villa runs a rivulet; and the country about it is enriched with ft-uitful and well cultivated fields ; Ixiving at present a considerable number of in- habitants. This was not so formerly: It was a marshy- place ; and the air so unwholsome, that it was more proper for frogs and toads, than for men to dwell in.— But »n my draining off the waters^ the air mended, and people resorted to it so fast a§ to render the place very populous ; so that I may, with truth, say, that I have here dedicated to the Lord, a church, altars, and hearts to worship him ; a circumstance this, which af- fords me infinite satisfaction as often as I reflect on it. It is with grcRt satisfaction that I see the etid of
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