An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson.

  • Edmund Gibson
Date:
1766
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 46] “« Family ; but whole Families thame- “* fully and conftantly indulge them- ** felves in this pernicious Practice ; ‘* Fathers and Matters, Children as ** well as Servants.: “You rR Committee proceeded to o enquire according to your Directions “into the Mifchiefs arifing from the ‘‘immoderate Ufe of Spirituous Li- «* quors; and more efpecially of Ge- << Concern, appear to be of the higheft «* Nature, and moft lafting Confequen- ‘ces; affecting not only particular *¢ Perfons and Families, but alfo the «¢ Trade of the Nation, and the public «* Welfare. With refpeét to particular « Perfons, it deprives them of their “< ftanding ; weakens and deftroys their ‘¢ natural Strength and Conftitutions ; ‘¢ themfelyes, as well as to the Com- “munity, And when their Spirits are *‘ raifed by drinking to Excefs, they “ are often carried to.a Degree of out- galas ragious