Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-01-14
From the Ne,u- York Courier.

Coon LIVING AND BAD w RlTlNG "a writer
IN the New Monthly Magazine, undertakes to
prove that good living is The cause oil bad writ
ing. He does no, go quite so ias as 70 say mat
dieting will inspire a Ounce with genius, or a
bear with e feelings. B.l he a, CUES, and We
ry correctly too, that If a mar m'snses his So
mach, that highly respectable portion Of the boz
dy is sure to avenge i'sslf "n the mind. The
rule works DO h ways-if the mind be abused,
the stomach always pays for il Every body
knows this, but every body does not know that
there is a vast distinction between an cpi.nre
and a glul,on, between good eating and Excess
sive eating. y man Of refined taste is always
refined in his ea,ing-qualty, moi quantity, IS
his morru. He will have the best Of every T. ing
If he can &c, it, and il he cannot, he will bt sor.
nv for it When you hear person a,ow him
self Dprfec ly Indifferent a, TO what he eats or
drinks, set hin, down a, once as ahypocrite IN
small uay. The creates, 5loe khrad in ths
world can t.llth difference between turtle and
SCUM q Ia JuGenne between the rich Juice Of
m. former and he hot wafer wi b little
grease IN il, of the latter. Now, SO long as one
nas Il stomach. and lives by eating, thes things
canno, be indifferent to him; and when he pre-
tends ,ha, they are, he is only aiming at a sub
limated charactrr--he is trying 10 pass himself
IF as so much wrapped in the affairs OF The
mind, that he is above thinking Of the body
Smal business this.
The gIutton is All abomuaion on the face OF
the earth; he is
"Born to eat, to be despised, and die"
With him. quantity is he great consideration;
give him enough, wh, Their it BE- Of fine venison
or salt pork, rather than too little OF The choi-
cest luxuri,s. His stomach is Doth OF the
daughters Of The horsr-lerch a, once. TO imi-
tate The language of MIS-. MALApRoP.' !, IS
cons an,ly bawling "Giv'! Give" The palate
Of the eluiton is neither more or less than d
piece OF soal-!ea.her. Not SO with hr epicure.
He is seldom go,mandizrr-he has too much
r. 6ns mrn, 10 convert his stomach into vast
slaughter house. He scans the things that ar,
set before him, with an ihquisi,ive eye; he pom
ders and deliberaies he is slow in making his
choice, but when made, i, is good onr. tie
does not move his jaw like wind mill in a
high gale; wi h HIM mas,t alton is slow and
dipnihrd operation. He dues not tat as ii he
was doing Something that he ought to he as
hamed of-as # deputy sheriff was afier.his
VIC ua'.
The epicure seldom WAKES fat-he generally
has hut one chin-be seldom sinks deep in the
mud, or gets cursed by the chair OF which he
sits. He NAV Gle Of govt, but never Of apo
pl,xy To him the following extract, with
which we shall close this article, will not apply
He may read it with an unruffled conscience.
"a corpulcnt inttllectualist is contradiction
in terms, palpable catao hresis. One might
as well talk OF a leaden kite, sedentary wil>o'
,he.wisp, a po, belIied spirit, OF lazy>lightning
Oh, sily is deadly foe to genius; in carneous
and unwieldy budies, the spir, is like little
gudg.on IN a large frying pan Of fat, which is
either totally absorbed, or tastes Of nothing bu,
the lard. L., no man attrmp, to write who has a
protub.ran, stomach; lei no man reckon upon
| Immortality who cannot distinctly feel s. reek-
on his own ribs; Tor he ihinest bow shoots the
far,hest, and the lean.s, horse generally wins
the race. II I were publisher, | should inva-
riably fight shy Of the "fair round belly with
good caron lined" and Immediately "fer a
| h and some price to the living skeleton for his
memoirs They would have run, and they
would deserve 1t; for we may be- assured that
they would rxhibi, more OF the fauits pointed
GU, in nv motto. All bone, muscle and nerve,
they would be doubly a,crp' able TO u public
which has lately been overs hemed with such
mass Of frsh, fat, and Hummery. Nothing
Fat ever We, enlightened the world; for even in
q ,sllow candle the ILLUMINATION springs from
the Thin wick )"
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