Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life: Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, ... Translated into English by W. Jones A.B

"How many Men do we daily see who, by their Intemperance and Excess, 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? And tho' we see others daily drop into the Grave before us, and are very apt, with Justice, to ascribe the loss of our Friends to their living too fast; yet we cannot forbear trading in the same Steps, and following the same Courses, till at last, by a violent and unnatural Death, we are hurried off the Stage of Life after them."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.