Wesley Corpus

7. Experience fhews, there is very feldom any danger in leaving them off all at once . 8. Strong liquors do not prevent the mifchiefs of a furfeit, nor carry it off fo fafely as water. 9. Malt liquors (except clear fmall-beer of a due age) are exceeding hurtful to tender perfons . 10. Coffee and tea are extremely hurtful to perfons who have weak nerves. 1. Tender perfons fhould eat very light fuppers ; and that two or three hours before going to bed . 2. They ought conftantly to go to bed about nine, and rife at four or five. 1. A due degree of exercise is indifpenfably neceffary to health and long life. 2. Walking is the beft exercise for those who are able to bear it, riding for those who art not. The open air, when the weather xix - weather is fair, contributes much to the. benefit of exercise. 3. We may ftrengthen any weak part of the body by conftant exercife . Thus the lungs may be ftrengthened by loud speaking, or walking up an eafy afcent : the digeftion , and the nerves by riding : the arms or hams by ftrongly rubbing them daily. 4. The ftudious ought to have ftated times for exercife, at least two or three hours a day : the one half of this before dinner, the other before going to bed. 5. They fhould frequently fhave, and frequently wafh their feet. 6. Those who read or write much, fhould learn to do it ftanding ; otherwife it will impair their health. 7. The fewer cloaths any one ufes, by day or night, the hardier he will be. 8. Exercise, firft, fhould be always on an empty flomach ; fecondly, fhould ne ver be continued to weariness ; thirdly , after