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On Longevity.

phical subjects , _ to produce this influence upon human life . Business , politics , and reli gion , which are the objects of attention of men of all classes , impart a vigour to the understanding , which by being conveyed to every part of the bod y , tends to produce health and long life . 4 . EQJJANIMITY OF TEMPER .

Theviolent and irregular actions of the passions tend to wear away ' the springs of life . Persons who live upon annuities in Europe have been observed to be longer lived in equal circumstances , than other people . This is probably occasioned- by their being exempted by the certainty of their subsistence from those fears of wantwhich so frequentldistract the

, y minds , and thereby weaken the bodies of all people . Life-rents have been supposed to have the same influence in prolonging life . Perhaps , thedesireof life , , in order to enjoy as long as possibfe that ' property , which' cannot be enjoyed a second time by a child or relation , may be another cause of the longevity of persons who live upon certain incomes . It is a fact , that the desire of life is a very powerful stimulus in prolongit

ing , especially when-that desire is supported b y hope . This is obvious to physicians every day . —Despair of recovery is the beginning of death in all diseases . But obvious and reasonable as the eft ' eCts of the equanimity of temper are upon human life , _ there are some exceptions in favour of passionate men and women having attained to a great age . The morbid stimulus of anger in these cases , was probably obviated b y less degrees , or less active exercises of the understanding , or by the ' defect or weakness of some of the other stimuli which kept up the motion of life .

5 . MATRIMONY . In the course of myenquiries , ! onlymet with one person beyondSo years of age-who had never , been married . I met with several ' women who had bore from ten to twenty children , and suckled them all . I met with one woman a native of Hertfordshire in England , who is now in the 1 ooth year of her agewho bore a child at 60 menstruated till

, , 80 , and frequently suckled two of her children ( though born in sucr cession to each other ) at the same time . She had passed the greatest . part of her life over a washing-tub . 6 . I have not found sedentary employments to prevent lono- liftwhere they are not accompanied b y intemperance in eutir . i- or drinkiiTv ' . This observation is not confined to literary mennor to women onl

, y , in whom longevity without much exercise of bod y has been frequently observed . 1 met with one instance of a weaver ; a second of a silversmith , and a third of a shoe-maker , among the number of old people , whose histories have suggested these observations ' . 7 . I have not found that acute , nor that all chronic diseases shorten life . Dr . Franklin had two successive vomicas in his lungs before he

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LONDON:. Article 3
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 5
ERRATA. Article 5
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE; OR, GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY. Article 6
A DISCOURSE, Article 7
DESCRIPTION OF FREEMASONRY. Article 9
THE PRINCIPLES OF FREE MASONRY EXPLAINED. Article 10
A PRAYER, USED AT THE INITIATION OF A CANDIDATE. Article 24
ADDRESS TO FREEMASONS IN GENERAL. Article 24
THE CEREMONY OBSERVED AT FUNERALS, Article 25
THE FUNERAL SERVICE. Article 27
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 31
ON THE UTILITY, CHOICE, AND USE OF PLEASURES, Article 32
ANECDOTE OF A WRETCHED PORTRAIT PAINTER. Article 36
ON THE NATURE OF DESIGN AND DECORATION IN ARCHITECTURE. Article 37
ON GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Article 39
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION. Article 41
ON LONGEVITY. Article 43
THOUGHTS ON THE NEW-YEAR; AND ON THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE. Article 47
A FRAGMENT ON BENEVOLENCE. Article 49
ON THE SACRED CHARACTERS OF KINGS. Article 50
ON KEEPING A SECRET. Article 53
GENEROUS SENTIMENTS. Article 54
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE HUGH KELLY. Article 55
ANECDOTE OF MARESCHAL DE TURENNE. Article 60
EQUALITY OF THE SEXES. Article 61
DEAN SWIFT. Article 61
THE PRINCE OF WALES. Article 62
DOMESTIC PEACE AND HAPPINESS, Article 63
SINGULAR PROPHECY. Article 64
PARTICULARS OF THE PLAGUE IN PHILADELPHIA. Article 65
TEMPERANCE. Article 69
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 71
PROLOGUE Article 73
EPILOGUE Article 73
POETRY. Article 75
ON THE DECEIT OF THE WORLD. Article 76
ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD. Article 77
LINES ON AMBITION. Article 77
ELEGIAC STANZAS Article 78
ODE Article 79
TO THE AFFLUENT. Article 80
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 81
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. Article 85
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On Longevity.

phical subjects , _ to produce this influence upon human life . Business , politics , and reli gion , which are the objects of attention of men of all classes , impart a vigour to the understanding , which by being conveyed to every part of the bod y , tends to produce health and long life . 4 . EQJJANIMITY OF TEMPER .

Theviolent and irregular actions of the passions tend to wear away ' the springs of life . Persons who live upon annuities in Europe have been observed to be longer lived in equal circumstances , than other people . This is probably occasioned- by their being exempted by the certainty of their subsistence from those fears of wantwhich so frequentldistract the

, y minds , and thereby weaken the bodies of all people . Life-rents have been supposed to have the same influence in prolonging life . Perhaps , thedesireof life , , in order to enjoy as long as possibfe that ' property , which' cannot be enjoyed a second time by a child or relation , may be another cause of the longevity of persons who live upon certain incomes . It is a fact , that the desire of life is a very powerful stimulus in prolongit

ing , especially when-that desire is supported b y hope . This is obvious to physicians every day . —Despair of recovery is the beginning of death in all diseases . But obvious and reasonable as the eft ' eCts of the equanimity of temper are upon human life , _ there are some exceptions in favour of passionate men and women having attained to a great age . The morbid stimulus of anger in these cases , was probably obviated b y less degrees , or less active exercises of the understanding , or by the ' defect or weakness of some of the other stimuli which kept up the motion of life .

5 . MATRIMONY . In the course of myenquiries , ! onlymet with one person beyondSo years of age-who had never , been married . I met with several ' women who had bore from ten to twenty children , and suckled them all . I met with one woman a native of Hertfordshire in England , who is now in the 1 ooth year of her agewho bore a child at 60 menstruated till

, , 80 , and frequently suckled two of her children ( though born in sucr cession to each other ) at the same time . She had passed the greatest . part of her life over a washing-tub . 6 . I have not found sedentary employments to prevent lono- liftwhere they are not accompanied b y intemperance in eutir . i- or drinkiiTv ' . This observation is not confined to literary mennor to women onl

, y , in whom longevity without much exercise of bod y has been frequently observed . 1 met with one instance of a weaver ; a second of a silversmith , and a third of a shoe-maker , among the number of old people , whose histories have suggested these observations ' . 7 . I have not found that acute , nor that all chronic diseases shorten life . Dr . Franklin had two successive vomicas in his lungs before he

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