Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life. Written originally in Italian, / by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when near an hundred years old. Translated into English by W. Jones, A.B.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566
Date:
MDCCLXVIII
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Credit: Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life. Written originally in Italian, / by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when near an hundred years old. Translated into English by W. Jones, A.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wot that warm thoughts of the tranf- porting joy Can flock the chafteft, or the niceft cloy ¢: But words obfcene, too grofs to move’ _defire, Like heaps of fewel, only choak the fire. -Noamby’s Effay on Poetry ' The late ingenious Mr. Addifon has, “in his Spe€tators, more than once treats ved on this fubjec&t; particularly, in No. 195, he has given us a very noble and elegant apology in favours of tem- » perance, which, as the argument is the | fame, and that it contains a fhort ace | count of the authour Cornaro, and a_ commendable character of the treatife itfelf, we fhall here beg leave to fub- join it to:this Introduétion. Fools,