A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors.

  • Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.
Date:
1733
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with greater Certainty, be faid of the unhappy habitual Drinkers of Brandy, and the like Diftiji’d fpirituous Li¬ quors, than of thofe who labour under any other Vices whatfoever ; for how rarely, how very rarely do we fee any of thofe unhappy Perfons reclaimed; they are abfolutely deaf to ail Admonition, neither will they hear the Voice of the Charmer, charm he never fo wifely. No Considerations whatfoever, neither of this World, nor the next, have any Weight with them ; they will forego all that is mod delirable here, and endure the utmoft Miferies in Life, for the Sake of it. How many does it reduce to fuffer the Hardships of the extreameft Poverty, not only by wafting their Subftance by a continual Drain to fatisfy a falfe, vi¬ tiated Appetite, but alfo by fo enfee^ bling and difabling them, that they have neither Will nor Power to labour for an honeft Livelihood ; which is a prin¬ cipal Reafon of the great Increafe of the Poor in this Nation, as alfo of the much greater Number of Robberies, that are committed of late Years, than were in former Ages. And as to the Health of thefe miserable People, the moft defira- ble, becaufe the Foundation of all Ga¬ ther Enjoyments, that is greatly deprav’d and fottifhly given in Exchange, for a B falfe,