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gradually flides into a confirmed dropfy, and this 
at length clofes the fatal {cene! Some few, who 
efcape the jaundice or dropfy, contract gout or 
fone, while others are taken off by apoplexy, 
palfy, or infanity! For this poifon, whether quick 
or flow in its operation, is always fure at the laft. 
Some few hardy veterans, indeed, inured by degrees 
to a fort of regular intemperance, being, as they 
term it, /eafoned by their liquor, now and then hold 
out longer than might be expected. 
This however ought to afford but poor encou- 
ragement, to a life of intemperance, which, at beft, 
is but to drag ona “ feveri/o flate of being,” de- 
formed by vice, and chequered with infirmities. 
Befides, it may well be fuppofed, that had thefe aged 
fots purfued an oppofite courfe, they might have 
lived happily to a far more advanced period. For 
be it remembered, that where one of thofe through 
dint of conftitution arrives at 60 or 70 years of age, 
thoufands are cut off in their prime! But what is 
remarkable, this proves no warning to their boon 
companions, who continue to run the fame giddy 
round, till, like leaves in autumn, they drop off one 
by one, to make room for their hopeful fucceffors! 
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ITS EFFECTS ON THE MIND AND MORALS. 
Wing, beer, and other fermented liquors, drank 
too freely, produce extravagant mirth and gaity, 
ending 
