6 54 Of the Excellent Qualities of Coffee. 



expensive article in Great Britain ; and if the butter 

 be omitted, which is by no means necessary (and is 

 even unwholesome), a good breakfast of milk coffee 

 might be provided for a very small sum. 



What a difference between such a breakfast and 

 that miserable and unwholesome wash which the poor 

 people in England drink under the name of tea I 



All the coffee that can be wanted may be had in the 

 British colonies, and paid for in British manufactures ; 

 but tea must be purchased in China, and paid for in 

 hard money. 



These are circumstances which ought, no doubt, to 

 have great weight, especially in such a country as Eng- 

 land, where all ranks of society are equally sensible 

 of the advantages of their distinguished situation, and 

 equally anxious to promote the public prosperity. 



There are some difficulties, no doubt, in changing 

 the habits of a nation ; but these difficulties have been 

 too much exaggerated, and they have too often been 

 an excuse for indolence. 



If any thing really useful be proposed to the public, 

 it can hardly fail to be adopted, if it be properly recom- 

 mended ; but so many new things, unworthy of notice, 

 are every day proposed, that it is by no means surpris- 

 ing that little attention is paid to such recommen- 

 dations. 



Many useful improvements have been proposed by 

 ingenious and enlightened men, which have failed, 

 merely because those who have brought them forward 

 have neglected to give directions sufficiently clear 

 respecting the details of their execution. 



I have been so much persuaded of that important 

 fact that I have perhaps sometimes erred on the other 



