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Comparison Between The Ancients And Moderns In Science And Literature.
we recognise , with facility and satisfaction , a decided superiority in all matters of science . Nor can this excite surprize , since they enjoy the advantage of possessing all the learning of antiquity , and have the opportunity of improving upon the discoveries of every preceding ace . The progress of literature and science has indeed , within this last century , arrived at a summit of excellence which the most enlarged conjectures of anterior times could never have reached , and which
must indubitably produce a universal conviction of the extensive powers of the human intellect . But , great as are the attainments of the present period , and numerous as appear' the present improvements of philosophy , still , to the . enlarged eye of hope , the horizon expands , and new fields of knowledge rise to view ; till , through the distant prospect , we anticipate the hemisphere of science , illumined with all the irradiations of future genius , and decorated with all the splendor of future discoveries .
An Historical Essay On Longevity.
AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON LONGEVITY .
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HPHE same year ( 1792 ) died at Neus , in the archbishopric of Co-- " - logne , H . Kauper , aged nz . He was a man of astrong make ; had been accustomed to walk a little every day ; could read , til ! his death , without spectacles , and retained the use of his senses to the last . Helen Gray died a few years ago , in England , in the 105 th year of her . age . She was of a small stature , exceedingly Iivety , peaceable
and good-tempered , and a few years . before her death acquired new teeth . Thomas Garrik- was alive in 1795 , in the county of Fife , in the 108 th year of his age . He still possessed great vigour ; and was celebrated on account of his extraordinary appetite . For twenty years he had never been confined to his bed bsickness .
y Not long ago there was still alive at Tacony , near Philadelphia , a shoemaker named R . Glen , in the 114 th year of his age . He was a Scotchman , had seen William III . enjoyed the perfect use of his sight and memory , ate and drank with akeen appetite , had a good digestion , laboured the whole week , and on Sunday walked to the church at Philadel phia . —His third wife was still alive ; she was thirty years
of age , and seemed perfectl y satisfied with the behaviour " of her husband . A certain baron ,-Baravicino de Capallis , died in 1770 , at Meran , in Tyrol , at the age of 104 . He had been married to four wives : the first he married in his fourteenth , and the last in his ei ghty-fourth year . By his fourth wife he had . seven children , and when he died , she was big with the eighth .- The vigour of his body and mind did
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Comparison Between The Ancients And Moderns In Science And Literature.
we recognise , with facility and satisfaction , a decided superiority in all matters of science . Nor can this excite surprize , since they enjoy the advantage of possessing all the learning of antiquity , and have the opportunity of improving upon the discoveries of every preceding ace . The progress of literature and science has indeed , within this last century , arrived at a summit of excellence which the most enlarged conjectures of anterior times could never have reached , and which
must indubitably produce a universal conviction of the extensive powers of the human intellect . But , great as are the attainments of the present period , and numerous as appear' the present improvements of philosophy , still , to the . enlarged eye of hope , the horizon expands , and new fields of knowledge rise to view ; till , through the distant prospect , we anticipate the hemisphere of science , illumined with all the irradiations of future genius , and decorated with all the splendor of future discoveries .
An Historical Essay On Longevity.
AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON LONGEVITY .
fCOS-CLUDED FROJI 1 > . Il 6 . 1
HPHE same year ( 1792 ) died at Neus , in the archbishopric of Co-- " - logne , H . Kauper , aged nz . He was a man of astrong make ; had been accustomed to walk a little every day ; could read , til ! his death , without spectacles , and retained the use of his senses to the last . Helen Gray died a few years ago , in England , in the 105 th year of her . age . She was of a small stature , exceedingly Iivety , peaceable
and good-tempered , and a few years . before her death acquired new teeth . Thomas Garrik- was alive in 1795 , in the county of Fife , in the 108 th year of his age . He still possessed great vigour ; and was celebrated on account of his extraordinary appetite . For twenty years he had never been confined to his bed bsickness .
y Not long ago there was still alive at Tacony , near Philadelphia , a shoemaker named R . Glen , in the 114 th year of his age . He was a Scotchman , had seen William III . enjoyed the perfect use of his sight and memory , ate and drank with akeen appetite , had a good digestion , laboured the whole week , and on Sunday walked to the church at Philadel phia . —His third wife was still alive ; she was thirty years
of age , and seemed perfectl y satisfied with the behaviour " of her husband . A certain baron ,-Baravicino de Capallis , died in 1770 , at Meran , in Tyrol , at the age of 104 . He had been married to four wives : the first he married in his fourteenth , and the last in his ei ghty-fourth year . By his fourth wife he had . seven children , and when he died , she was big with the eighth .- The vigour of his body and mind did