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bx borrowing to-morrow*s energy for the 

 service of to-day, to-morrow will be spent in 

 languor. The consequences indeed are less 

 pernicious to the orator than they were to the 

 physician. His mind may recr\iit its strength 

 before a new exertion of its faculties is de- 

 manded. But the lecturer, who&c labours wxre 

 quotidian, must have entered his class with 

 faculties enfeebled and incapable of exertion. 

 Finding his spirits sunk as much below the 

 point of exhilaration, as his last d6ze had 

 raised them above it, he encreased the quantity 

 of stimulus in a progressive duplicate ratio : — 

 The unfortunate Brown at length fell a victim 

 to dram-drinking. 



The Turks, who chew opium in large quan- 

 tities, are much addicted to reverie. Some 

 traveller relates, that he has observed a native 

 of Turkey sitting from morning till evening in 

 the same posture, poring in a stream where he 

 had fixed a bottle, for the sake of being throw^n 

 into a pleasing rumination by the bubbling 

 noise it made with the water. 



They who have indulged their minds in a 

 habit of inattention and \\^ndering, are apt to 

 prolong their time of study, that they may 

 finish, before they rise from their desk, the 

 task they have allotted for the day : under the 

 impression that they are by this mean* redeem- 



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