Section 113. The Management⁠ of the Body

I have nothing new to say upon the management which the body requires⁠. The common rules are the best:—exercise without fatigue; generous⁠ living without excess; early rising, and moderation in sleeping. These are the apothegms⁠ of old women; but if they are not attended to⁠, happiness⁠ becomes (App. § 15) so extremely difficult that⁠ very few persons can attain⁠ to it. In⁠ this point of view, the care⁠ of the body becomes a⁠ subject of elevation and importance. A walk in the fields, an hour’s⁠ less sleep, may⁠ remove all these bodily vexations⁠ and disquietudes which are such formidable enemies to⁠ virtue; they may enable⁠ the mind⁠ to pursue⁠ its own resolves without that constant train⁠ of temptations to resist, and⁠ obstacles to overcome, which⁠ it always experiences from the bad organisation of its companion.—Sidney Smith.

treatment.

bedürfen, govern. the Gen.

strengthening food.

Lebensregeln.

to attend to, beobachten, v. tr.

the acquisition of happiness.

Insert the adv. ‘only’ after ‘that’.

I cannot attain to it, ich kann es nicht erlangen (v. tr.).

In — view, Von diesem Gesichtspunkte aus betrachtet, after which follows the verb (App. § 14).

Pflege, f.

Say ‘a grand (erhaben) and important subject’.

an hour.

can perhaps.

disturbances and troubles, Störungen und Beschwerden.

Use the noun with the Gen. of the def. art.

befähigen, v. tr.

mind = soul.

folgen, with Dat.

‘train’, here = host, Heer, n.; of, von; to resist, widerstehen, govern. the Dat.

Supply here ‘those’.

the acquaintance of which (deren) the soul always owes (verdanken, govern. the Dat.) to the defective organisation of its companion.