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leg, yet fuftain itfelf well; age requires al-
ways two, and fometimes calls in addi-
tional fupport: in conformity to the maxim
which fays, " man is a creature of four legs in,
the morning, two at noon, and three at night/'
U To reprefent an old man (landing," fays
Leonardo da Vinci, cc you mufl give him
a dull, indolent attitude, with (low motions,
his knees a little bent, his feet ftradling, his
back crooked, his head (looping forwards, and
his arms rather folded than fpread too wide."
Age being deficient in llrength, exerts the
whole body to perform what art the noon of
life would have required only a part, or a
Jingle member.
The imbecility of age is exquifitely drawn
by the Royal Author, on whofe words were I
to indulge myfelf, I might comment thus:
«<f Remember now thy Creator, in the days of
thy youth, ere the evil days come, or the
years approach, when thou fay in. them, I have
no pleaiure." When the mental abilities
(hall have been gradually decaying, when the
reafo'ning, the conceptive^ the reflective, the
excurfive, powers of the mind., (hall ceafe their
faculties. When what was once, bright as
the meridian fun, fplendid as the beams of
noon, (hall be diminilhed to a few rays of
ambiguous, twilight,, or to the feeble, the frigid,
iaflueace^
leg, yet fuftain itfelf well; age requires al-
ways two, and fometimes calls in addi-
tional fupport: in conformity to the maxim
which fays, " man is a creature of four legs in,
the morning, two at noon, and three at night/'
U To reprefent an old man (landing," fays
Leonardo da Vinci, cc you mufl give him
a dull, indolent attitude, with (low motions,
his knees a little bent, his feet ftradling, his
back crooked, his head (looping forwards, and
his arms rather folded than fpread too wide."
Age being deficient in llrength, exerts the
whole body to perform what art the noon of
life would have required only a part, or a
Jingle member.
The imbecility of age is exquifitely drawn
by the Royal Author, on whofe words were I
to indulge myfelf, I might comment thus:
«<f Remember now thy Creator, in the days of
thy youth, ere the evil days come, or the
years approach, when thou fay in. them, I have
no pleaiure." When the mental abilities
(hall have been gradually decaying, when the
reafo'ning, the conceptive^ the reflective, the
excurfive, powers of the mind., (hall ceafe their
faculties. When what was once, bright as
the meridian fun, fplendid as the beams of
noon, (hall be diminilhed to a few rays of
ambiguous, twilight,, or to the feeble, the frigid,
iaflueace^