effluvia arising from particular trades.  It is not uncommon to see a man with green hair or a yellow wig, from his constant employment in brass; if he reads, the green vestiges of his occupation remain on every leaf, never to be expunged.  The inside of his body, no doubt, receives the same tincture, but is kept clean by being often washed with ale.  Some of the fair sex, likewise are subject to the same inconvenience, but find relief in the same remedy.

LONGEVITY.

Man is a time-piece.  He measures out a certain space, then stops for ever.  We see him move upon the earth, hear him click, and perceive in his face the uses of intelligence.  His external appearance will inform us whether he is old-fashioned, in which case, he is less valuable upon every gambling calculation.  His face also will generally inform us whether all is right within.  This curious machine is filled with a complication of movements, very unfit to be regulated by the rough hand of ignorance, which sometimes leaves a mark not to be obliterated even by the hand of an artist.  If the works are directed by violence, destruction is not far off.  If we load it with the oil of luxury, it will give an additional vigor, but in the end, clog and impede the motion.  But if the machine is under the influence of prudence, she will guide it with an even, and a delicate hand, and perhaps the piece may move on ’till it is fairly worn out by a long course of fourscore years.

There are a set of people who expect to find that health in medicine, which possibly might be found in regimen, in air, exercise, or serenity of mind.

There is another class amongst us, and that rather numerous, whose employment is laborious, and whose conduct is irregular.  Their time is divided between hard working, and hard drinking, and both by a fire.  It is no uncommon thing to see one of these, at forty, wear the aspect of sixty, and finish a life of violence at fifty, which the hand of prudence would have directed to eighty.

The strength of a kingdom consists in the multitude of its inhabitants; success in trade depends upon the manufacturer; the support and direction of a family, upon the head of it.  When this useful part of mankind, therefore, are cut off in the active part of life, the community sustains a loss, whether we take the matter in a national, a commercial, or a private view.

We have a third class, who shun the rock upon which these last fall, but wreck upon another; they run upon scylla though they have missed charybdis; they escape the liquid destruction, but split upon the solid.  These are proficients in good eating; adepts in culling of delicacies, and the modes of dressing them.  Matters of the whole art of cookery; each carries a kitchen in his head.  Thus an excellent constitution may be stabbed by the spit.  Nature never designed us to live well, and continue well; the stomach is