Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir (1649-1697)

Essays on Several Subjects Written by Sir Tho. Pope Blount

London

Printed for Richard Bently

1691

"So the other be of no less Prejudice to the understanding, by occasioning Diseases of the Mind."

[...] Now Reading may very properly be compar'd to Eating, and Thinking to Digesting, as therefore to one Hours Eating, we allow many hours for Digesting; so to one hours Reading, we should assign Sufficient time for Meditating, and Digesting, what we have Read. Or else as the one by breeding ill Humours, and obstructing Passages, impairs the Health of the Body; So the other be of no less Prejudice to the understanding, by occasioning Diseases of the Mind.[...]
(p. 95)

Body::Disease

Reading in EEBO

Text from Sir Tho. Pope Blount's Essays on Several Subjects, 3rd impression (London: Printed for Richard Bently, 1697). <Link to EEBO>

01/12/2012