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the manners of the three Nations above mentioned : — Such a rcformatlcn of the 

 greatert conlequencc for the preiifrvation of our People, and p.irticul'.rly ot our No- 

 bility and Gentry.— What is to be imitated of the Egyptian manner of livinr.— Tiie 

 Greek exercifes, though not fo necelTary in War as it is now carried on, are proper 

 for working ofFour full diet, and rej airing the degeneracy oi the Flumaii Body, pro- 

 duced by the change of the fyftcm of War — Of the difule of txerciles in Britain, 

 both among the better fort and the lower. — The ufe of the Greek Regimen, of 

 Bathing, Anointing, and Fridion, abfolutcly nectfTiry for pref.^rving IleaUh — 

 Fridlion, without Anointing, may do harm — Tht^ Greek pr::ftice of being n.-ikeJ, 

 and exercihng naked, contributes very much to Health, — An example ot that in our 

 own times given. — Of the Roman method of joining Military exerciles with Agri- 

 culture — This ought to be praflifed in Britain. — The Farms ought to he Imall i;i 

 Britain as among the Romans, — no great Villages or Towns can make amends fo/ 

 the defolation of the Country by great Farms. — The confequcnce of fmall Farms 



among the Romans, as to their Population and rhe Recruiting of their Armies. 



After the manners of Rome were ccnupted by Afiatic wealth, it was the Greek 

 Philofophy that preferved any virtue among them — That Philofophy is wanting 

 among us; and the queftion is, Whetlier it can be fupplied by other things which 

 we have ? — But it is certain that our Heahh cannot be prelerved withuut thofe Arts 

 by which the Antient Nations preferved their Health. — Our hours of E iting, Drink- 

 ing, and Sleeping, ought to be reformed, and pradifed as they were among the Ro- 

 mans. — The reformation of our manner of living, of the utmoft importance for pre- 

 ferving the Health, the Morals, and the Numbers, of the People. — This reiorma- 

 tion may be brought about by the People of rank fetting an example, and making it 

 the Falhion. — Fafhion prevails among the vulgar as well as among the better lort. — 

 Bathing, Friction, and Anointing, might in that way be brought into Fafliion among 

 the lower fort of People, and alfo wearing fewer Clothes, and not (waddling and 

 wrapping up their Children. — Of the Diet of the lower fort of People, and particu- 

 larly of their Drinking Spirits — That ought to be abolifhed altogether, or at leafl 

 very much reftraincd. — Of the o-vo-jitix in Sparta, by which the Diet of the Peoplj 



was regulated. — Something of that kind praiStifed aboard our Ships of War The 



efFe£t of it remarkably feen in Captain Cook's Voyages, where, if the Men had been 

 allowed to live as they would have chofen to do, they never would have brought 

 home the Ship.— If fuch regulation of Diet was made general in Britain, what a fav- 

 ing there would be of Men ? — Thefe regulations the more neceflary, that the Peo« 

 pit are employed in Arts the moft deftru6live of Men ; — and not only they, but their 

 Children. — This makes the conlumption of Children wonderful. p. 23. 



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