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An Historical Essay On Longevity.
However favourable a northern climate maybe to longevity , too , great a degree of cold is , on the other hand , prejudicial' to it . In Iceland , and the northern parts of Asia , such as Siberia , men attain at most to the age of only 60 or 70 . Besides England and Scotland , Ireland is celebrated for the longevity of its inhabitants . In Dunsford , a small place in that country / there were living , at one time , eighty persons above the age of fourscore . And Lord Bacon says , there was not a village in the whole island , as he believed , in which there was not one man upwards , of eighty . ' '
In i < ranee instances of longevity are not so abundant ; though a man died there , in the year 1757 , at the age of 121 . The . case is the same in Italy ; yet in the northern province of Lombardy there have been some instances of great age . In Spain also there . have been some instances , though seldom , of men who lived to the age of 110 . Greece is still as celebrated as it was formerl y in regard to
longevity . Tournefort found , at Athens , an old consul who was 118 , years of age . The island Naxos is particularly famous on this account . Even in Egypt and India there are instances of long life , particularly among the Bramins , Anchorites , and Hermits , who detest the . indolence and intemperance of the other inhabitants of these countries . ' Ethiopia formerly was much celebrated for its longevitybut a
; contrary account is given of it by Bruce . Some districts of Hungary are distinguished by the great age of the people who reside in them . Germany contains abundance of old persons ; but it affords few , instances of ver } ' long life . Even in Holland people may become old ; but this is not often , thecase , aiid few live thereto the age of a hundred . '
An Essay On The Chinese Poetry.
AN ESSAY ON THE CHINESE POETRY .
npHERE is a melod y and harmony in . the language of the Chinese superior to any known language , either antient or modern : for its words are varied not only by quantity , or the longer or shorter time in which they are pronounced , but also by the raising and falling of the voice , and by various inflexions of tones like those of music . And besidesevery word ( except one ) ends either with vowel ' with
, a , or the liquid n , or with the nasal sound ng . Yet , notwithstanding those excellencies , the Chinese have never been acquainted with a versification , the cadence of which is regulated by the diposition of these musical tones . Their verses have been distinguished only by .
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An Historical Essay On Longevity.
However favourable a northern climate maybe to longevity , too , great a degree of cold is , on the other hand , prejudicial' to it . In Iceland , and the northern parts of Asia , such as Siberia , men attain at most to the age of only 60 or 70 . Besides England and Scotland , Ireland is celebrated for the longevity of its inhabitants . In Dunsford , a small place in that country / there were living , at one time , eighty persons above the age of fourscore . And Lord Bacon says , there was not a village in the whole island , as he believed , in which there was not one man upwards , of eighty . ' '
In i < ranee instances of longevity are not so abundant ; though a man died there , in the year 1757 , at the age of 121 . The . case is the same in Italy ; yet in the northern province of Lombardy there have been some instances of great age . In Spain also there . have been some instances , though seldom , of men who lived to the age of 110 . Greece is still as celebrated as it was formerl y in regard to
longevity . Tournefort found , at Athens , an old consul who was 118 , years of age . The island Naxos is particularly famous on this account . Even in Egypt and India there are instances of long life , particularly among the Bramins , Anchorites , and Hermits , who detest the . indolence and intemperance of the other inhabitants of these countries . ' Ethiopia formerly was much celebrated for its longevitybut a
; contrary account is given of it by Bruce . Some districts of Hungary are distinguished by the great age of the people who reside in them . Germany contains abundance of old persons ; but it affords few , instances of ver } ' long life . Even in Holland people may become old ; but this is not often , thecase , aiid few live thereto the age of a hundred . '
An Essay On The Chinese Poetry.
AN ESSAY ON THE CHINESE POETRY .
npHERE is a melod y and harmony in . the language of the Chinese superior to any known language , either antient or modern : for its words are varied not only by quantity , or the longer or shorter time in which they are pronounced , but also by the raising and falling of the voice , and by various inflexions of tones like those of music . And besidesevery word ( except one ) ends either with vowel ' with
, a , or the liquid n , or with the nasal sound ng . Yet , notwithstanding those excellencies , the Chinese have never been acquainted with a versification , the cadence of which is regulated by the diposition of these musical tones . Their verses have been distinguished only by .