Secundus - Apician Morsels: Or, Tales of the Table, Kitchen and Larder, the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection

THE ROMAN SENATE DEBATING ON THE TURBOT.See p. 138.

MR . EATINGTOWN IN THE ACT OF RECEIVING AX INVITATION FOR 5 OCLOCK very PRECISELY .See p. 96.

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CONTENTS.

APICIAN MORSELS, &c.

CHAPTER I.

DIETETIC TEMPERANCE, &c.

Temperance, that virtue without pride, and fortune without envy, gives indolence (healthfulness) of body, and tranquillity of mind; the best guardian of youth, and support of old age.Temples Essays.

I N an extended sense, temperance is synonymous with moderation, and may be recommended as a duty every man owes to himself in the exercise of all his affections and passions; and is here closely allied to prudence, which forbids the undue gratification of any desire whatever. In a restricted sense, it is that virtue which guards against those injuries our health is exposed to, by an excessive indulgence of our appetites in eating and drinking. Nature lays us under an obligation to eat and drink for the support of our bodily frame; and has endowed us with faculties and powers to choose and prepare that diet which is most salutary and agreeable to our tastes: the great danger we are exposed to is, that of consulting the latter quality rather than the former; and hence of being tempted to exceed the due measure requisite for subsistence.

Intemperance in eating and drinking loads the vessels with a redundancy of juices, increases the rapidity of the circulation, until a plethora corrupt the humours, and either carries off the miserable victims, by inflammatory disorders, in the prime of life, or sows the seeds of chronical infirmities, that accelerate the incapacities and distresses of old age before the natural term. All the arguments that are brought against suicide, whether by sword, pistol, or poison, hold good in some degree against intemperance. Who does not know, that the oftener a building is shocked, the sooner it will fall; the more violence used to a delicate machine, the sooner it will be destroyed; and no machine is so exquisitely delicate as the human body.

The principal vices repressed by temperance are incontinency, and excesses in eating and drinking: if there be any more, they flow from one or other of these causes. It would, at present, lead us to too great a length, to consider this virtue fully in both points of view. To the last, then, as more appropriate to our particular subject, we shall chiefly confine what further remarks we may have to offer on dietetic temperance.

Wine, says an eminent author, raises the imagination, but depresses the judgment. He that resigns his reason is guilty of every thing be is liable to in the absence of it. A drunken man is the greatest monster in human nature, and the most despicable character in human society; this vice has very fatal effects on the mind, the body, and fortune of the person who is devoted to it; as to the mind, it discovers every flaw in it, and makes every latent seed sprout out in the soul; it adds fury to the passions, and force to the objects that are apt to inflame them. Wine often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric man into an assassin; it gives bitterness to resentment, makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.