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* Great , howe ^ tar , was the propensity to indulge in gorgeous display and voluptuous extravagance . In many instances the wealthy Romans devoted their superb fetod highly embellished galleries to different useful and * faudftMd purposes ; some of their saloons being the receptacle * of UbrarieV a * welF& the finest works of sculptors and other artists . Persons who-were eniitlent for mental , endowments or moral excellence usually resorted toand asseittbted io them , to participate in the rational delights o £ sooial intercourse and ft *
improvement resulting from literary conversation . In such places . Giotto , Virgil , and Horace luxuriated among intellectual entertainment * ; for here philosophers disputed , orators declaimed , and votaries of the Muses recited their effusions to persons of both sexes and different ages , who indiscriminately mingled together in friendly communion . In these assemblages sages also imparted the fruits of-their experience , and thence the aspiring youth of Rome imbibed , lessons of wisdom and virtue , animating them to perform magnanimous deeds for the glory of their country . ' - —p . 184 .
The author reproaches this country for its very limited use of public bath 8 , apparently so necessary to the health of the population : ' r > 4 Universal as may be the use of baths in the countries inhabited by th * followers of Mahomet , and extensive as may be the practice in some outers * to how limited an extent has this healthful and cleanly practice prevailed in Great Britain , so distinguished for its refinement and improvement in the useful arts !'
Coinciding with the feeling expressed in the above quotation , and to induce our countrymen to adopt means for a cheap and more general use of baths , a variety are described in this work , very simple in ttieir construction , so as to bring them within the means of the humblest mechanic , whose health forms a portion of the wealth of his country * The author very justly boasts of the superior means which , at this era , we possess for the supply of large populations with water , and thus illustrates his position : ,
* The Roman aqueducts , the machinery of Egypt , the souterazi of Constantinople , and some other contrivances of former times , strongly excite our curiosity and claim our admiration ; but how obviously inferior are they M * many respects to the ingenious inventions of later periods for similar pa * poses ; chemistry having disclosed by what means the potent agency of
ste » m may be employed and regulated for almost indefinitely augmenting mechanical force , the skilful application of this great elastic power has facilitated the execution of plans for affording an exuberant supply of wmjUr to any city , whatever may be its extent , the loftiness of its biulaings , or the number of its population . —p . 312 ;
It may be suggested to the author , whether , in a second edition * qe might not procure analyses of the water with which London * $ 4 tiU other great towns are supplied . Such an appendage would probablg b& useful to medical practitioners , by enabling tpetn to point out the mejutp of correcting any injurious quality in the waiter supplied to the py \ jlfc Besides , it may tend to aet ttfe public ri ^ fcfc with , regard tp ip ^ ny # *> judices previously imbibed on tl > yimbj ^ , , „ , . ,, .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 691, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/63/
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