[44] Many plants fit for use, and perhaps most such, and many others, by means of an easy art, give out a great quantity of excellent sugar, not much inferior to that of sugar-canes. Eight ounces of the fresh juice of the skirret yield an ounce of the best sugar. Margraff Mem. de l’Acad. de Berlin.
[45] Many phænomena prove this plethora; and it is evinced by a simple observation, and one that occurs daily, viz. by those convulsions of the lower jaw-bone which cause a collision of the teeth in sleep, and that more strongly in boys when they have eat a hearty supper.
[46] It was justly observed by Theophrastus, that to eat much, and to live upon flesh, deprives men of the use of their reason, blunts the faculties of their minds, and renders them dull and stupid.
[47] Boerhaave prælect. tom. VII. p. 340.
[48] The goddess, says Plato, chose a place which was to give birth to the wisest men. Init. Timæi. And do not forget this with regard to places, that they are of great consequence in giving birth to men of superior genius, or the reverse. De leg. lib. 5.
[49] By the excessive heat, which is not so much as allayed by an Etesian gale, I have entirely lost the power of philosophising, and am deterred from writing. Lancisi ad Cocchi, p. 47.
[50] Qui ita ut vestitus calceatusque erat, retectis pedibus, paulisper conquiescebat opposita ad oculos manu. Suetonius in vit. C. O. Aug. cap. 82. I enlarged upon the ill consequences of sleeping after dinner, in an epistle which I inscribed a few years ago to the illustrious Haller.
[51] Adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium prebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur. Cicero Oratione pro Archiâ.
[52] Quintilianus de Instit. Orator, lib. i. cap. i.
FINIS.