Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1803-05-16

cut OF by irregularlty and debauchery,
from half our years And feel, at
fixty, aEtbs i7frniitisl tat 0ur f0rsfatbsrs
acre anaequaiHted qvifb.
There is not a more valuable little
volume than Armdrong'sArt Of Health.
We're the rules preicrbed there, but
followed by our youth We ihouId fee
the frelh bloom and vigor Of health re
turning again 70 the conference and
old age would pafs of with the fereni-
~ Of an autumnal eve But it is idle
to moralize to f55js g5o bave dragDn liner
yssrd their knowledge, ard rJs8 svery thing
GDib5nt Tie cfrcis who lneer at all guides
bur thofe who dired them ID pleafare
and follow no laws but the imPulie of
inclination.
"A Gngular example Of reformation
is exhibited in the life Of Lewis Coma
70, a Venetian nobeman, Of whom i
IS related, that, having brought his bo-
dy into luch fate Of decay by in5em,
perance, that the phylicians defpaired
Of his If. when he had reached the
thirty Gxth year they ahnred him that
il was impolIible he could furvive ano
ther year without purifying different
courfe OF life. Cornaro had refo ution
enough TO adopt their advice, and i'm.
mediately fet about the important
change. He confined himf-lf 10 a GER
tain quantity Of food, exactly weighed
out to him daily ATTAINED from all
excsfes of wine, and from all violent
pa6ions. With this regimen he recov-
cred, grew hale, alert and lived il
health until bis buadredtb year, in which,
without any previous complaint, or in
difpoGtion, he expired, in a kind Of
fwoon, without gruggle Or agroan
lis amuGng to read the numerous
accounts of longevity procured BY arti-
hcisl means, medicines, cordials and
he ike, to preventive t0rpityiag Or
;Edurafisp Of tbe f55sJ, and pra'oag hts f5r
icverai senfuris5.' The ltory of the
Marquis d'Aymar who came over 70
Venice in bis 3soth year, told by the
Count Of Lamberg, f4vours TOO much
of the fabulous.-Ths great ages to
which men arrived in the beginning Of
the world, mentioned 10 The holy fcip
lures, has been nationally and philofo
phically accounted for i; and is eailY
1econcilable to trath. Then the ordi.
nary age was 600 years, for the : world
as to be peoPIed BY one man and one
woman" After the great delug e here
were three perfons, their age was COZ.
fequently dminifhed and We snd that
none Of the patriarchs, except Shen,
arrived at 500 In the Gecond century
they lived only 10 z4o, in the third,
none but Terah came 10 200. TIL.
world a that time was 70 we'll 1ocked,
that there was no neceaity for longer
life, and the Inconvenience which would
have aTifen from il, are as obvious as
tn goodnefs 81 lh.t power who 70 wife
l. regulates our years Ever fnce The
time of Notes, longevity has been at 10
or Sd and this, by accurate caleula.
ton is found 10 be A good medium, By
which the earth will neither be over
aocked, nor too thinly inhabited for
life and death now keep an equal pace
BY a compariion Of facred AMI profane
hi1ory, The above period leens to be
the common duration of the life of man,
In all probability i will gradually di.
mnilh, as the world continues TO grow
older Plato, az the age of 81, was
accounted an old man, and the initan
css adduccd by Piny, L. vii, G, 4S,
as very extraordinary may all be match
ed in modern hiaory. palladium.