Show NECESSITY 2 0 OP SLEEP SLEY no person of active ive lve ire mind should try to prevent sleep steep in some persons per sous only comes aheu rest ia is indis pell perl sibie sible to the continuance of health in n fact sleep once in twenty nour four hours is as essential to the he exi exl existence stene e of a mama ia respiration of fresh air ble bie condition for tor sleep carnot cannot prevent its ita approach coachmen slumber on heir coaches and couriers on their horses while hile bile soldiers fall asleep on n the field of battle amid amill all ail the noise of artillery and the war during the retreat of sir john moore several af pf f the th british iol kol soldiers diers were reported 61 ofed to have hhie fallen falle asleep upon the march and yet the they contini continued 1 feda fedl 1 walking onward the most violent passi dih and excitement cannot preserve even minds from sleep chiq ulu aexander alexander the great slept on the gleis field id or of arabela andNa and napoleon ioleon on that of austerlitz even stripes and tortures cannot keep off sleep as criminals have been known to sleep on thet the rack noises which seive serve at first to fo drle arle away sleep go soon on become indispensable to ils ita existence thus a stage we coach stopping to change mange horses wakes cakes all the uie passengers the proprietor of an air iron forge who slept close to the din of hammers forges es and arid blast furnaces would awake leke if it there ay iy was wab loarf any interruption to io teem during the iii night bt and arid a sick nich miller who had bad his ins mill stopped d on that account passed see ples until the mill enfil resumed its usual noise homer in the illiad elegantly represents sleep ag as overcoming in 1 all men arid and even ever the goas gods excepting 0 jupiter alone the length of time tillie passed parsed in sleep is riot not the same for all men it varies in different bials and at diffie different rent ages lint b ut it if cannot be determined ter mined from the time p passed assed in sleep blepp relative to the strength or energy of the functions of the bod body y or mind r from rom six to nine hours is the average proportion yet the roman noman emperor Calig casignia Cali call gnia pia slept only t three ree bi hours tirs frederick of prussia and D dr john hunter 3 consumed only four or five hours in repose while the great scipio slept during the eight it is during infancy that sleep is longest and most profound women also sleep longer than men inen arid and young men meb loneer longer than old the sleepless nights of old age vre ire are almost proverbial it would appear that carnivorous animals sleep in general I 1 longer than herbivorous as that superior tier activity of the muscles and arid senses of the former more especially require repose SS ahem general lee was a prisoner at albany he dined with an irishman before enter entering ing inq upon the wine the general remarked to his host that after drinkin drinking he er apt to abuse irishman for which he hoped hope big bis host would excuse him in advance by my soul gner general alg aig alj I 1 will trill do that abat said his host isyou will excuse a trifling fault which I 1 have myself it is this whenever wh en ever I 1 bear hear a man ffman abusing ireland I 1 have a sad fault of cracking his sconce with mith my ahal shai lalah ti the general was wag IT cayll during the tbt whole tibits Tt BitS |