Public Advertiser (22 April 1763) [ Practices ]
… and clogs up the Brain; it promotes and prevents thinking; it hinders you from talking at all, or it enables you to talk with proper Gravity and Sedateness, as it obliges you to make the proper Pauses, which Sheridan in his Lectures … St. Alban's , swell too high for his Lordship's Pocket, there are many a Tavern-keepers, who will salute him at parting with a - Very welcome, Sir - at a Quarter the Expence. The Coal-heaver, on the al contrary, is under a Necessity of … as I Shall confine my present Observations to Liquors only) Which the Palates of the Vulgar are never regaled with. The first Tax, that I shall mention, is an additional Duty upon Tea: And this I would have extended to all Sorts of …
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