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in this land as there was ; your very chamber- 

 maids have lost their bloom, I suppose by 

 sipping tea. Even the agitations of the pas- 

 sions at cards are not so hostile to female 

 charms." 



" Of these dreadful effects, (observes the 

 Reviewer) some are perhaps imaginary, and 

 some may have another cause. That there 

 is less beauty in the present race of females, 

 than in those who entered the world with us, 

 all of us are inclined to think on whom beauty 

 has ceased to smile ; but our fathers and 

 grandfathers- made the same complaint before 

 us ; and our posterity will still find beauties 

 irresistibly powerful." 



" That the diseases commonly called nerv- 

 ous tremors, fits, habitual depressions, and all 

 the maladies which proceed from laxity and 

 debility, are more frequent than in any former 

 time, is, I believe, true, however deplorable. 

 But this new race of evils will not be expelled 

 by the prohibition of tea. This general lan- 

 guor is the effect of general luxury, of general 

 idleness. If it be most to be found among 

 tea-drinkers, the reason is, that tea is found 

 one of the stated amusements of the idle 

 and luxurious. The whole mode of life is 

 changed; every kind of voluntary labour, 



