Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-10-01

boIdt, who has not spent an idle hour for more
than half a century, is, believe, still living at
the age of eighty, possessed OF undecayed powers
Iof intellect.
"of the names Of men, not personally know to
me, but whose lives stand on authentic record,
" ho preserved from decay, by the constant exer-
else Of them, their mental faculties until deep
old age, could enumeEate host; but few will
be sufficient.
ssThe mind oil Franklin retained its wonderful
compass, activity, and strength, until after his
eightieth year. Some Of the c0mpoSItiogs dictated
by him but few days before his death, when too
weak to employ his pen, lack but little of tile
freshness and vgoT W hich characterize the produce
lions OF hiSearlIeE years.
"Raeligh was executed at the age Of nearly
eighty, his facultiea strong, active end undimmed.
Cullen splendid ectur1T, in the medical
school Of Edinburgh, at the age of eighty three
and Monroe, the elder, was the same al about the
same age. BoeThaave, when more than seventy
years old, attracted TO his lectures crowds OF pupils
from all parts of Europe; and Biumenbach did the
same when Irlm So 10 S.. DR.. johnson, when
upwards of seventy, wrote the Lives of the
Poets decidedly the abIeSt production OF his pen.
The late venerable Professor lInfeIand, when
eighty aud upwards, was deservedly the pride Of
his profession in Berlin, city Interior to Paris
only (lf lnfeaior to any place. in science and
Letters. VOitalre, at the age OF eishty-two or
thee, possessed the mental viv0city and vigOr of
raIIeYrand was one of the aOlest diPlomatiS;S
the time.
ga case more triumphantty couoboratiye Of the
doctrine l am urging than any other that can he
cited, is that OF Lewis COrnaro Ct Venice. Not
only did his strict and we'll directed temperance
in all thngS united TO suitable exercise OF his bOd
aud mind, preserve unimpa:red, the health, ac-
llvIty and ygor Of both, for upward of sixty years,
but restored TO them, in their poSsessos fortieth
year, those blessings after they had been shattered
beyond all reasonable hope oil remedy by previ-
GUS career of inemperance and dissipation.
FFbat noble Venetian died as his bIosraphes tells
u.s. at the aee of more than hundred gears, with
out agony, i'll, an elbow chair
"t:e bequeatEed TO the world three brief treat
ises on heaLth, written by himself, at three differ
ent aud far advanced periods OF life. The first Ol
them came from his pen in his eighty the sec
| Ond IN his eghty-6lth, and the third his ninety
| first year.
''They are auto biographical record of the diet
drink, and generel regimen, which were inStru-
mental in the restoration AMI maintenance of his
health the protEactOn OF his lite, and the eYemp-
ton from the decrepitude and disccmforts Of age
which he enjoyed, under an unusual accumulation
OF years.
''The narrative is nterspersed, and its monoto-
ny relieved, by numerous reflections OF strong,
flesh, and clear Seeing mind. aud It's style is
pefsnlcuonS, SpEightlY, and vigorous.
call these persOnages, repeat, were so vignr-
Gus in intellect, and So lluStrIOus when old, only
because they were in all things temperate, ard
never allowed their faculties 10 take rust and
StilIen for want OF eYercISe. Had they ceased to
be active observers and thinkers, and become
mere eaters, drinkers and SlerperS, as too many
men do, at the age Of Sirty 10y sepcnfy their facul-
tier would nave been greatly enIeebIed, and they
would have been cOt1rds by eighty-Or an earlier
age"
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