The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, A Concise View, of the Principles Calculated for the Preservation of Health, and the Attainment of Long Life ..A. Constable & Company, 1807 |
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Halaman 55 - I would conquer at the Olympic games." But consider what precedes and follows, and then, if it be for your advantage, engage in the affair. You must conform to rules, submit to a diet, refrain from dainties ; exercise your body, whether you choose it or not, at a stated hour, in heat and cold ; you must drink no cold water, nor sometimes even wine.
Halaman 125 - I beseech all persons who shall read this work not to degrade themselves to a level with the brutes, or the rabble, by gratifying their sloth, or by eating and drinking promiscuously whatever pleases their palates, or by indulging their appetites of every kind. But whether they understand physic or not, let them consult their reason, and observe what agrees, and what does not agree with them, that, like wise men, they may adhere to the use of such things as conduce to their health, and forbear...
Halaman 100 - ... Theban said (though not over honestly), If the law must be violated, it looks best when it is done for an empire.* But we say better, if we are to take pride in any such thing, it is best when it is in that moderation which conduces to our health. But a narrowness of soul and a stingy humor compel some men to keep under and defraud their genius at home, who, when they enjoy the costly fare of another man's table, do cram themselves as eagerly as if it were all plunder ; then they are taken ill,...
Halaman 112 - ... and avoiding them as such. 26. I have heard that Tiberius Caesar was wont to say, that he was a ridiculous man that held forth his hand to a physician after sixty. But it seems to me to be a little too severely said. But this is certain, that every man ought to have skill in his own pulse, for it is very different in every man; neither ought he to be ignorant of the temper of his own body, as to heat and cold, or what things do him good, and what hurt. For he has no sense, and is both a blind...
Halaman 74 - Dinner is taken very sparingly ; a very small piece of pudding and less meat ; and when fish is to be obtained, neither one nor the other is allowed.
Halaman 37 - ... of the whole body, whether in relation to their quantity, quality, mixture, motion, or any other way in which they become offenfive.
Halaman 130 - It was not from those who lived on vegetables that robbers, murderers, sycophants, or tyrants have proceeded, but from flesh-eaters. The necessaries of life are few and easily acquired, without violating justice, liberty, or peace of mind : whereas luxury obliges those vulgar souls who take delight in it, to covet riches, to give up their liberty, to sell justice, to misspend their time, to ruin their health, and to renounce the joy of an upright conscience.
Halaman 75 - ... Prince of Wales, was desired to reduce himself as much as he possibly could, to enable him to ride some favourite horse, without his carrying more weight than was agreed upon ; in consequence of which, he abstained from animal and even farinaceous food for eight succeeding days, and the only substitute was now and then a piece of apple ; he was not injured by it at the time, and is now in good health : added to which, Dennis Fitzpatrick, a person at this time continually employed as a rider,...
Halaman 44 - It is of great moment to a man's health whether his common bread be white or brown, well or ill baked.
Halaman 199 - ... age, was born of his father's third wife. Being a Greek in religion, the old man was a strict observer of fasts, and never used any food but milk and cakes. He had descendants in the fifth generation, with whom he sometimes sported, carrying them in his arms. He died in 1724, at the age of 184 years. Count Wallis .had a portrait taken of this Old man when he fell in with him previous to his death. The Dutch envoy, then at Vienna, transmitted this account to the states-general.