An essay on early rising, as it is favourable to health, business, and devotion / By Samuel Bottomley, Scarborough.

  • Bottomley, Samuel.
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1822
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Credit: An essay on early rising, as it is favourable to health, business, and devotion / By Samuel Bottomley, Scarborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it needful, the writer of this Essay, could Say much from his own observation—he could with truth affiim, that after twenty years experience of the inefficacy of medicines to preserve his health, he has for twenty years more, happily enjoyed, by per- severing in the practice he here recommends, better health than he had in his youth, while the use of medicine has been almost wholly superseded. Would the reader then enjoy himself } Would he give, a relish to his food* and be fitted for the labours of the day? Let him not spend his mornings in yawning upon his bed: Let him rise betimes, and if possible, get out of the smoke, into the open fields, to hear the winged choristers, how the wakeful Lark warbles her matin songs as she mounts aloft: let him observe the grazing herds, and the bleating flocks, with all the charms of rural life; thus he will exercise his limbs, brace his nerves, regale his seusesj exhilirate his spirits, and breathing the salubrious breath of morn, will greatly invigorate his whole frame. 2nd. Expedition and success in business are among the valuable objects to be promoted by early rising. Most men are men of some kind of business, and will agree that business must be minded. They who are not busy bodies in other men’s matters, will mind their own business; and whether it be in the field or in the garden, in the ropery or the factory, in the study, the warehouse, the schopl or the shop, or wherever else, it will require time, and the morning is found the best time for^all business. Who has not heard, or heard and not believed the common saying, “ One hour in the morning is worth two at night?” Who need be told that if he lose an hour in the morning he feels the want of it all the rest of the day ? He who