On EARLY RISING, 
I 2 I 
LETTER XXXIX. 
To the fame . 
Mad AM, Thurfday. 
T Pl E gay morii arrived glittering with dewy gems ! How 
rapturous ’tis to behold the fun on the horizon’s verge, 
rifing in solemn majefty, replete with genial warmth and ra- 
diance, to gladden the Tons of men I In common language, have 
you ever experienced the advantages of rifing early ? No body 
difputes that it conduces to health, fince it not only renders the 
night fleep found and refrefhing, but prevents the body from 
being foftned and enervated : and what is of no lefs import- 
ance, it invigorates the mind. Health is the fait of life, with- 
put which it has no relilh : “ It is the virtue of the body, and 
“ the good fortune of the soul.” Or, in other words, of greater 
authority, <c there are no riches above a sound body, and no 
<c joy above the joy of the heart.” 
The ideas of health and long , life, are qftentimes united, 
but they are very diftinct things : rifing early, indeed, incre.afes 
both ; and whilfl we live a greater number of days, feveral 
hours are added to each of thofe days ; hours of mofl enjoy- 
ment, becaufe in thefe we have moft the ccmrnand of ourfelves ; 
whilft the intemperate and the idle, of every denomination, fuf- 
fer themfelves to be detained in the arms of death, of which 
fleep is an image ; or meditate with broken and entangled 
thoughts, expreffive neither of life nor death. 
With regard to the concerns of this world, it is very empha- 
tically faid, he that rifeth early fhall fit among princes, he 
R <l fhall 
