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Rh requiſite than the taſked hour of walking or riding, which the Man of Literature or Buſineſs with difficulty perſuades himſelf to ſnatch from his favorite employments. This may, indeed, juſt ſuffice to keep off the dreadful conſequences which muſt inevitably attend an entirely ſedentary life; but will never give that ſtate of robuſt, and, if you will, of rude health, which no one who ever enjoyed will ever affect to deſpiſe.

Beſides, though the Middle-aged and the Phlegmatic may prevail on themſelves to take theſe regular airings, the Young and the Sanguine muſt have ſome active enjoyment to call them forth; for they never will quit the moſt trifling, or even vicious purſuit, that engages their attention within Rh