Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Great Britain

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Considerations occasion'd by an act of this present session of Parliament to prevent the excessive use of spirituous liquors : by laying an additional duty thereon, and to encourage the exportation of British-made spirits.
Date: 1760
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Further considerations humbly offered in support of the proposition, that the duties to be paid by the corn-distillers will not, in any degree, prevent the common and excessive use of gin.
Date: [1760?]
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The charge of J---- P---- to the grand jury of M------x, on Saturday May 22. 1736
Date: 1738
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An address to an eminent person upon an important subject
Date: 1751
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A friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin , Brandy, and other Distilled Spirituous Liquors. With an Humble Representation of the Necessity of restraining a Vice so destructive of the Industry, Morals, Health, and Lives of the People. To which are Added, In an Appendix, directions by a very Eminent Physician, to such as may be desirous to break off that odious and fatal Habit of drinking Drams. By Stephen Hales, D. D. Clerk of the Closet to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: 1751