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a general courfe of provident attentions, a growing 

 dijlike to the oppofite habits, fuch as, the frequent- 

 ing of wakes, and other periodical aflemblies for 

 idle purpofes, may be expelled, till a uniform regiw 

 larity of meritorious and virtuous condu6l might be 

 found, where idlcnefs, vice, and mifery, had for- 

 merly dwelt. 



Where a habit of tippling at the ale-houfe pre- 

 vails in the father of a poor family, it is of fmall 

 confequence to the comfort of that family how 

 much or how little he earns, or whether the articles 

 of fubfiflence be deai* or cheap; wretchednefs muil 

 attend his family. All that fuch a man will earn, or 

 filch, is eafily confumed by himfelf, and confumed 

 under a grovelling and ftupid notion that to en- 

 deavour to fave any thing is vain; or if attainable, 

 that there is a greater good in the wafte or indul- 

 gence of the prefent moment. 



It may indeed pofiibly be objected, that malt 

 liquor is the natural beverage of this country, and 

 that by a rigid difcouragement of drinking ftrong 

 beer, the confumption of barley would be leHened, 

 and the landed intereft thereby fuffer. It fhall be 

 readily granted that malt liquor /V the national be- 

 verage, and that a check to the growth of barley is 



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