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"An Essay of Health and Long Life"
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Date: 1724
"The sudden Gusts of these Passions being thus accounted for, when they become extreme they drive about the Blood with such a Hurricane, that Nature is overset, like a Mill by a Flood: So that what drove it only quicker round before, now intirely stops it, and renders the Countenance pale and gha...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)