Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life: With Means of Correcting a Bad Constitution, &C (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Lewis Cornaro
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1332202276
ISBN-139781332202270
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Excerpt from Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life: With Means of Correcting a Bad Constitution, &C
Long Life is one of the greatest Blessings, that we Mortals can enjoy; it being what all Men naturally desire and wish for. Nay when Men are come to the longed date, they desire yet to live a little longer. But however Health is that which sweetens all our other Enjoyments, without which the Longest Life would be no more than a living Death, and render us burdensome to ourselves, and troublesome to all about us.
But though Life be so desirous, and Health so great a Blessing, yet how much is both the one and the other undervalued by the greatest part of Mankind? Whatever they may think or fay of the inestimableness of those precious Jewels yet 'tis plain by their practice that they put the flight upon, and despise them both; and the most Men are hardly sensible of the Worth of Health, till they come in good earnest to be deprived of it.
How many Men do we daily see by their Intemperance and Excess to lay the Seeds of Future Distempers, which either carry them off in the flower of their Age, which is the case of most, or else render their old Age, if they arrive to it, uneasy and uncomfortable?
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Long Life is one of the greatest Blessings, that we Mortals can enjoy; it being what all Men naturally desire and wish for. Nay when Men are come to the longed date, they desire yet to live a little longer. But however Health is that which sweetens all our other Enjoyments, without which the Longest Life would be no more than a living Death, and render us burdensome to ourselves, and troublesome to all about us.
But though Life be so desirous, and Health so great a Blessing, yet how much is both the one and the other undervalued by the greatest part of Mankind? Whatever they may think or fay of the inestimableness of those precious Jewels yet 'tis plain by their practice that they put the flight upon, and despise them both; and the most Men are hardly sensible of the Worth of Health, till they come in good earnest to be deprived of it.
How many Men do we daily see by their Intemperance and Excess to lay the Seeds of Future Distempers, which either carry them off in the flower of their Age, which is the case of most, or else render their old Age, if they arrive to it, uneasy and uncomfortable?
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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