"Now, who would not avoid this rough Handling, by taking Things in Time, when they apprehend a Disorder to be rising, and observing a regular Mind-Diet."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
Monday, June 22. 1724
Metaphor
"Now, who would not avoid this rough Handling, by taking Things in Time, when they apprehend a Disorder to be rising, and observing a regular Mind-Diet."
Metaphor in Context
However, since a Person must be in a painful way indeed, before he cries out for the Physician, I would propound a kind of Diet to those who discover Symptoms of any approaching Spiritual Malady, which will serve them by way of Prevention. This Method is certainly preferable to the common way of Delaying till the Disease is actually upon them, which is then in Danger of not being removed, without Recourse to violent Remedies. In Sir Clouterly's Case, the Prescription of Mr. Jyngle is so very ungentle, that Fair Ladies, who find themselves a going into any Immoral Habit, should, one would think, take early Care to stop the Progress of it, for fear of lying under the Necessity of such dreadful Emeticks. That, it seems, which the Titled Patient must be forced to undergo, for the Cure of Vanity only, (and, what Person, with a Title, thinks Vanity so great an Ill?) will, he confesses, be attended with such violent Workings, that it will make him vomit his Heart up. Now, who would not avoid this rough Handling, by taking Things in Time, when they apprehend a Disorder to be rising, and observing a regular Mind-Diet.
(p. 214)
(p. 214)
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Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
Text from The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/17/2013
