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conteft, remember, is not for an empty imaginary 
object, but for a real prize—a prize that is inefti- 
mable! not for the fading laurel or tinfeled wreath, 
for which others contend, but for thofe more bloom- 
ing, more /ubfantial honours, which neattu, the 
DAUGHTER 0f TEMPERANCE, only can beftow. For 
it is thine, O HEALTH, and THINE ALongE, to diffufe 
through the human breaft that genial warmth, that 
ferene funfhine, which glows in the cheek, which 
fparkles in the eye, and which animates the whole 
frame! 
4thly. I come now to that clafs of veterans who, 
deaf to every intreaty, have arrived at the laft ftage 
ef habitual dram-drinking; who to this vice have 
added infidelity, and abandoned themfelves wholly 
to debauchery; as if the taper of life could not be 
burnt out with fufficient rapidity without being 
lighted at both ends! Bent upon what they calla 
* {hort life and a merry one,” (but which we fhall ven- 
ture to pronounce a fhort and miferable one) they 
will doubtlefs fpurn at thefe rules and admonitions, 
-and continue to run headlong to their ruin. It is 
in vain, then, to reafon with fuch defpicable flaves, 
as can fo tamely, and without one generous ftruggle, 
give up every pretenfion to that noble freedom which 
dignifies rational beings, and which ought to be their 
pride as Britons and as men! Since vice, it feems, is 
more truly defirable than virtue, poverty than plenty, 
and fince even ficknefs and remorfe are better than 
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