Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Cornaro, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330690400 ISBN 13: 9781330690406

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life

This reasoning certainly has the aspect of plausibility, to such as take but a very hasty and superficial view of the subject. But surely if we will honestly investigate this matter with a candid, and truly inquiring mind, we shall see things very differently, and be led to very different conclusions. We shall then find the.

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Excerpt from Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life

The most remarkable instance of the efficacy of temperance, towards the pro curing long life, is what we meet with in a little book published by Lewis Cornaro, the Venetian; which I the rather mention, because it is of undoubted credit. As the late Venetian ambassador, who was of the same family, attested more than once in conver sation, when he resided in England. Carna ro, who was the author of the little treatise I am mentioning, was of an infirm constitu tion, till about forty, when, by obstinately persisting in an exact course of temperance, he recovered a perfect state of health; in somuch that at forescore he published his book, which has been translated into Eng lish under the title of Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthy life. He lived to give a third or fourth edition of it, and after having passed his hundredth year, died without pain or agony, and like one who falls asleep. The treatise I mention has been taken notice of by seve ral eminent authors, and is written with sucha Spirit of cheerfulness, religion, and good sense, as are the natural concomitants of temperance and sobriety. The mixture of the old man in it, is rather a recommenda~ tion than a discredit to it.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330690400
• ISBN 13: 9781330690406
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192