Public Advertiser (22 April 1763) [ Practices ]
… by the Bye, is an excellent Weed: It both clears 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, … are molt grievous to the lower Rank of People, as they are unavoidable, while the Taxes upon the better, that is, dearer Kinds of Liquors consumed by the Great, cannot at all affect them, as these may be avoided, I shall proceed to point out …
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