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POVERTY. I. 
€¢ The real calls of nature conftitute 
the meafure of enjoyment, in the ‘ame 
manner that the foot is the meafure of the 
fhoe. The want of necellaries alone can 
be termed poverty.” —Pedag. 
‘© Tf anyone fhall fay, that he has feen 
a juft man in want of bread, I reply, 
that this muf# have heen in a place where 
there was nor ancther jult man.”’—Pedag. 
GtNEROSITY. 
<¢ What ficld, how fertile foever it may 
prove, can ever produce fo much as bene- 
ficence: cuinam agri tanium profuerint 
quantum gratificari.”—Pedag. 
DRESS. 
«¢ Let your vetments be fuited to your 
age, to your ftation, to your figure, to 
your fituation, and to your occupations: 
congruant veffes etati, perfone, figuris, 
nature, fiudits.’—Pedag. 
MODERATION. 
‘© Natural defires are limited to what- 
foever is fuficient: que funt fecundum na- 
turam eweumfcriountur fufficientia.’— 
Pedag. 
ON THE USE OF LIQUORS. 
“© According to the Phyfician Artorius, 
in his work entitled ‘ De longa vita,” one 
ought not to drink for any other purpofe 
than merely to moiften the aliments, if the 
object be to attain long lite.”"—-Pedag. 
BREAD. 
«< By the ufe of paftry, men have fophif- 
ticated the aliment beft calculated to pre- 
pare and digeft, bread, by fubtratticg 
from it what is moft nourifhing: faciem 
& parabilem cibum nempe panem effemi- 
want, quod frumenti eft nutriens excri- 
bantes.’—Pedag. 
' This pafiage maft be allowed to be re- 
markable, as it contains the modern doc- 
trine of Parmentier, Cadet, &c. who have 
afferted that the bread compofed of the 
zuhole of the meal, is the moft healthy and 
nourifhing. 
HEAT. 
<¢ A drefs compofed of .a thick woollen 
ftuff, is not warm in itfelf, but it confines 
the natural heat of the body, and thus 
prevents it from being diffipated.’— 
Pedeg. 
THE DIVINITY. 
** What is the fole and univerfal mea- 
fure of ali things? Gop, who is always 
» equal and like himfelf ; who weighs and 
meafures every thing, and who fuftains 
all nature in a juft eguilibrium.”’— 
4d Gentes, 
OF THE DEITY, ADDRESSED TO THE 
ANCIENT PaGANS. 
‘Orpheus, according to your poets, 
foftened tigers by his voice; but the 
Divinity of the Chrift:ans, by conferring 
the true religion on mankind, has done 
more, fince he has foftened the moft feroci- 
ous fpecies of animalse=men themf{elves.” 
—Ad Gentes. 
FEATHER BEDS. 5 
“Tt is a huriful practice to lie upon 
feathers, which are fofter than fleep ite 
felf (ipfo fomno moltius.) A feather bed 
by enveloping the body, corrupts the ali. 
ments inftead of producing a due concoc- 
tion, A more firm and even couch, is 
more natural.”—Pedag. | 
SLEEP. 
**Sleep, like an avaricious publican, 
forces ua to fpend with him one half 
of our lives.”’—Pedag. 
BATHS. 
°° The frequent ufe of baths bereaves 
us of our ftrength and relaxes our natural 
vigour, We ougat not therefore to bathe 
without neceffity. The Greeks were of 
this opinicn.”"—Pedag. 
WOMEN, 
«« The too frequent intercourfe between 
the fexes, is wicked and damnable.” 
SLAVE-MERCHANTS. 
«There are wretches who navigate the 
feas on purpofe to import fernication like 
bread and wine ; and there are others ftill 
more wicked, who buy females in the 
market, as they would purchafe bread and 
wine. "—Pedag. 
FACE-PAINTING. 
‘* Thofe ladies, who occupy too much 
time at their toilette, do not perceive that 
by conferring an artificial, they lofe all 
natural beauty, and wholly extinguith the 
vivacity of the countenance. Their fleth, 
which lofes its elafticity by means of the 
flow poifons applied to it, focn becomes 
unable to refilt thofe maladies which {pee- 
dily overtake them. In addition to this, 
they feem to reproach the great workman 
who made them, for not giving a fuffici- 
ency of beauty. 
“Occupied folly about their apparel, 
and neglecting every thing elfe, they ree 
main motionlefs like fo many paintings in- 
tended merely to be looked at, without 
reflecting that they were born to manage a 
family, and govern their houfeold,”’ 
Traité de |’Art du Charpentier, ap- 
prouvé et adopté par ]Inftitut National, 
pour faire fuite aux Arts et Métiers 
publics par l’Académie des Sciences ; 
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par J, H, Hasssnrrarz, Premiere 
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