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

  • Edmund Gibson
Date:
1766
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Credit: An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gh , ** ragious Paflions, and become bold ‘¢ and daring in committing Robberies and other Offences, for an imme- diate Livelihood. “ FarTuHerR, They who indulge themfelves in this perniciousCuftom, are hereby renderedincapableof hard — Labour, as well as indifpofed to it ; their Health is ruined, and their «© Lives by Degrees deftroyed.” a. In a Royal Proclamation, March 8, ¥737, for putting in Execution the late A& againft retazling of Spirituous Liquors; the Introduction is as follows: — Nn € a 4 a) € AY € wv ¢ an & tay “* WHEREAS, in order to put a Stop ** to the perniciovs Practice of com- ** mon and excefflive drinking of Bran- “* dy, Geneva, and other Spirituous Li- “* guors, fo deftructive of the Health, _* Morals, and Induftry of our Subjects, “and fo manifeftly injurious to the ** public Peace arid Tranquility; an Act ** of Parliament was made, &c.” XI. Zi