jects, some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general.
To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith) add a cubit to his stature,[1] in this little model of a man's body; but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes or estates to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we have now touched,[2] they may sow greatness to their posterity and succession. But these things are commonly not observed, but left to take their chance.
XXX. Of Regiment[3] of Health.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of,[4] and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. But it is a safer conclusion to say, This agreeth not well with me, therefore I will not con-
- ↑ "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" Matthew vi. 27.
- ↑ Touch. To treat lightly.
"Whereat we glanced from theme to theme,
Discuss'd the books to love or hate,
Or touch'd the changes of the state,
Or threaded some Socratic dream."
Tennyson. In Memoriam. lxxxix.
- ↑ Regiment or regimen. Rule of diet or mode of living, common in this phrase 'regimen of health.'
- ↑ Of. After an adjective, in respect of, in the matter of, in point of, in. Now literary, and somewhat archaic, except in particular phrases, as 'blind of one eye.'
