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does not ftart at the firing of a cannon, fhall be extremely 
difconcerted when funk by difeafe to the border of effeminacy, 
at the fudden opening of a door. Defire is not always propor- 
tioned to bodily ftrength: it may fometimes be ftrongeft when 
the corporeal ftrength is at the loweft ebb ; it is often*found fo; _ 
and therefore another reafon occurs, why the general ufe of 
Tea ought not to be confidered as the moft indifferent of all 
fubjects. 
From what has been faid upon this fubject, it will sated 
be admitted, that children and very young perfons 
neral fhould be deterred from the ufe of this infu on. It 
weakens their flomachs, impairs the digeftive powers, and 
favours the generation of many difeafes. We feldom perceive 
the rudiments of {crophulous difeafes fo often any where as 
in the weak feeble offspring of the inhabitants of towns, and 
whofe breakfaft and {upper often confift of the weak runnings 
of ordinary Tea, with its ufual appurtenances. It ought by no 
means to be the common diet of boarding-fchools; if it be al- 
lowed fometimes as a treat, the-children fhould at the fame 
time be normed; that the conftant ufe of it would be i injurious 
to their health, ftrength, and conftitution in general. _ 
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