THE IMMORTAL MENTOR: OR, MAN'S UNERRING GUIDE TO A HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND HAPPY LIFE. In three Parts. BY ! Luige' AND DR. SCOTT. ' < Reason's whole pleasure, all the joy os senle, ; ;', POPE, PHILADELPHIA: 1802. THE NEW YORK 1899. RECOMMENDATION BY GENERAL WASHINGTON. Mounr Vernon, July 3d, 1799. “REV, SIR, " For your kind compliment-“ The IM. " MORTAL Mentor," I beg you to accept my “best thanks. I have perused it with singular " satisfaction; and hesitate not to say, that it “ is, in my opinion at least, an invaluable “ compilation. I cannot but hope that a book " whose contents do such credit to its title, " will meet a generous patronage. “ Should that patronage equal my wishes, " you will have no reason to regret, that you to ever printed the Immortal Mentor. “ With respect, I am, Rev. Sir, 6 Humble Servant, :::::::::::..::.GEORGE WASHINGTON, :::::.:& The Reo M. Weems.". THE GREAT ADDISON BESTOWS THE FOL4 LOWING EULOGIUM ON THE AUTHOR OF THE FIRST PART OF THIS WORK. “ CORNARO was of an infirm constitution till about forty, when, by obstinately persisting in the Rules recommended in this Book, he recovered a perfect state of health, insomuch, that at four-score he published this Treatise. He lived to give a fourth edition of it, and after having passed his hundredth year, died without pain or agony, like one who falls asleep. This Book is highly extolled by many eminent authors, and is written with such a spirit of cheerfulness and good sense, as are the natural concomitants of temperance and virtue." CONTENTS. et PART I. PAGE. Chap. I. MAN's unerring Guide to a Long and Healthy Life - - - - - 1 II. The Method of Correcting a Bad Con- stitution - - - - - - - - - 41 III. A Letter from Sig. Lewis Cornaro, to the Right Rev. Barbara, Patriarch of Aquileia - - - - - - - - 52 IV. Of ihe Birth and Death of Man 42 APPENDIX. pocrates, Plutarch, and several other . |