Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:: [1874?]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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opportunity of stating publicly, that, if it were the will of God that I were to be to-morrow on my death-bed, and my learned and highly-esteemed friend Professor Maclean at my bedside, and were he as my medical attendant to repeat the statement he has made in your columns, that mine was a case in which “ brandy, and brandy alone, stood between me and death,” I would cheerfully risk the alternative, and refuse the brandy. Apologising for the length of this letter, I am, Sir, yours, &c., BASIL WILBERFORCE. Deanery, Southampton, May 25, 1874.