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< { cheerfulness as to soften in a great measure the hard- 

 " ships of slavery, and induce a spe&ator to hope, when 

 " the miseries of life are said to be unsupportable, that 

 " they are sometimes exaggerated through the medium 

 44 of fancy." 



On this there is the following note. " He (says honest 

 SLARE the physician) that undertakes to argue against 

 " sweets in general, takes upon him a very difficult task, 

 " for nature seems to have recommended this taste to all 

 " sorts of creatures ; the birds of the air, the beasts of 

 " the field, many reptiles and flies, seem to be pleased 

 " and delighted with the specific relish of all sweets, and 

 " to distaste its contrary. Now the sugar-cane, or sugar, 

 " I hold for the top and highest standard of vegetable 

 " sweets." <c Sugar is obtainable in some degree from most 

 " vegetables, and Dr. CULLEN is of opinion, that sugar 

 " is dircttly nutritious. There is also good reason to sup- 

 " pose, that the general use of sugar in Europe has had 

 " the effect of extinguishing the scurvy, the plague, and 

 " many other diseases formerly epidemical." 



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