Of Air. Henry Scongal. 429 count. I-Iow excellently ha,d he learned his ·mafl.:er's lefl.on, To ta,te no thoug·ht what hefoou !d eat, what hejhould drink. or where– w ithql he fooujd be clothed! Never any thing he was 1nore unconcerned in than this. Whatever was fet before him for the fu fientation of his body, he-did eat of it aiking no quefl:ions for appetite's fake. His thoughts and his.fpirit were never taken up with thofe aCtions of ~he animal life, ev-en when he was 'about them; and, while he fupported natut~e, he fcarce [uffered his taO:e to have any/ cornplacency in them. Ile thought fl:range to fee thofe wlio pre– tended to a ChrifHan temperance, exercife fuch voluptuous pleafure in their meats, n1aking them the fubjecr of their table-talk, . and, as if they owned their bellies for their . gods, profeffing they loved fuch and fuch di!hes with all their fouls. Alas! that the weaknefs and_ infirmity of hun1an nature, by -which we are levelled with the beafis, iho?ld becom~ the n1atter of our vanity and voluptuoufn'efs, infi-ead of the humble and abaGng fenfe we ought to have of our– felves. The int?Ocence and purity of his life . '\vas obfervable fron1 his very childhood. He was never tinCl:ured with the leaf1 ap· , pearance
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