Plocacosmos: or, the whole art of hairdressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair ... with a history of the hair and headdress ... also complete rules for the management of children ... and ... for the preservation of the health and happiness of age / By James Stewart.

  • Stewart, James.
Date:
1782
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plocacosmos: or, the whole art of hairdressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair ... with a history of the hair and headdress ... also complete rules for the management of children ... and ... for the preservation of the health and happiness of age / By James Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 43* ] Nay, the very prefent flip through our fingers, and there is not that moment which we can call our own. How vain a thing is it for us to venture upon projects, :to fay to ourfelves I will go build, purchafe, difeharge fuch offices, fettle my affairs, and then retire. We are all of us born to the fame cafualties, all equally frail and uncertain of to-morrow, as at the very altar where we pray for life. We learn to die by feeing the facrifices killed before us; but there is no need of a wound or fcorching of the heart for it, when the noofc of a cord or the fmothering of a pillow will do the work. All things have their feafons, they begin, they increafe, they die. The heaven and the earth grow old, and are appointed then- periods. That which we call death, is but a pauie or fufpenfion, and in truth a progrefs to life; only our thoughts look downwards upon the body, and not forward upon things to come. All things under the fun are mortal, both cities and empnes. And the time will come, when it fhall be a queftion where they were, and perhaps, whether ever they had a being or no. Some will be deflro^ed by war, others by luxury, fire, inundation, earth- quakes. Why fhould it trouble me then to die, as a fore-runner of univerfal diffolution ? A great mind fubmits itfelftoGod,and luffers willingly what the law of the univerfe will otherwife bring to pafs upon neceffity. That good old man Bafus, though