Means of obtaining a long and healthy life / by Lewis Cornaro ; with notes by Mason L. Weems ; to which is added, The way to wealth, by Doctor Franklin.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Means of obtaining a long and healthy life / by Lewis Cornaro ; with notes by Mason L. Weems ; to which is added, The way to wealth, by Doctor Franklin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    |* th-it the wicked shall not live out half their days. For as violent gales of wind will soon wreck the strongest ships, so vio- lent passions of hatred, anger, and sorrow, will soon destroy the best constitutions. could no longer sustain her tottering emaciated body, and her di soluti n s emed at hand. One day she called her intimate friends to her bed-side, and as well as she could, spoke to the following effect: I know you all pity me, but alas! I am not wor- thy of your pit) ; lor all my misery is entirely owing to' the wickeclnesi of my own heart. I have two is ; and 1 have all my life been unhappy, for no other reason but because of th< ir prosperity. When we were young, 1 could neither eat nor sleep in com- for\ if they had either praise or pleasure. As soon as they wer< g own to be women, they married great- ly to th< ir advantage and satisfaction: this galled me, to the heart; and though I had several good < ffers, yet thinking them rather unequal to my sisters,! re- fused theni, and then was inwardly vexed and dis- tressed for tear I should get no better. I never waived for any thing, and might have t>eeri very happy, but £.rthis wretched temper. My sisters loved me bnderly, for 1 concealed from them as much as possible this odious passion, and yet never did an) poor wret< h lead so miserable a life as 1 have done, for even blessing they enjoyed was a dagger to my heart. 'Tis this Envy, which preying on my very vitals, has ruined my health, and is now carry- ing me down to the grave. Pray for me, that God of' his infinite mercy may forgive me this horrid sin ; and with nw dy ing breath I conjure you all, to check the first risings of a passion that has proved so fatal to me. B