Human Longevity: Recording the Name, Age, Place of Residence, and Year, of the Decease of 1712 Persons, who Attained a Century, & Upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799, Comprising a Period of 1733 Years : with Anecdotes of the Most RemarkableJ. Easton, 1799 - 292 páginas |
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Pasajes populares
Página xviii - Ic-fes in the fcale of population at one period, it gains at another; and thus, probably, the average number of inhabitants, on the furface of the globe continues, at all times, nearly the fame. By this medium the world is neither overftocked with inhabitants, nor kept too thin, but life and death keep a tolerably equal pace.
Página xxii - In the earlieft ages, we are informed that human life was protracted to a very extraordinary length ; yet how few perfons, in thefe latter times, arrive at that period which nature feems to have defigned ! Man is by nature a...
Página xix - The common atmofphere may well be fuppofed to be more or lefs healthy in proportion, as it abounds with this animating principle. As this exhales, in copious ftreams, from the green leaves of all kinds of vegetables, even from thofe of the...
Página xvii - Accordingly it appears, from the London Bills of Mortality, during a period of thirty years, viz. from the year 1728 to 1758, the fum of the deaths amounted to 750,322, and that, in all this...
Página xx - Whitehurft allures us, from certain rafts, that Englifhmen are in general longer lived than North Americans ; and that a Britifh conftitution will laft longer, even in that climate, than a native one. But it muft be allowed in general, that the human conftitution is adapted to the peculiar ftate and temperature of each refpeftive climate, fo that no part of the habitable globe can be pronounced too hot or too cold for its inhabitants.
Página 127 - William Penn ratify his firft and laft treaty with the Indians, without the formalities of pen, ink, and paper ; he...
Página 127 - He beheld all the intermediate stages through which a people pass, from the lowest to the highest degree of civilization — the beginning and end of the empire of Great Britain in Pennsylvania. He had been the subject of crowned heads, and afterward died a citizen of the newly-created republic of America.
Página 126 - ... beasts and birds of prey, afterwards become the seat of a city not only the first in wealth and arts in the new, but rivalling in both many of the first cities in the old world.
Página 176 - Milton 50 pounds soon after the restoration, which the bard returned him with honour, though not without much difficulty, as his circumstances were very low. Mr. Hartop would have declined receiving it, but the pride of the poet was equal to his genius, and he sent the money with an angry letter, which was found among the curious possessions of this venerable old man.
Página xxvii - ... ever hold out to any advanced period, under all the rude fhocks it fo often meets with from riot and intemperance, , which lay it open to all the various " ills that flefh is heir to," is ftill more truly miraculous ! But here, perhaps, it may be alledged, that it never can be fuppofed, all the long livers purfued one uniform, regular courfe of life, fince it is well known, that fome of the moft noted ones were fometimes guilty of great deviations from ftrict temperance and regularity.