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Title:  Serious considerations on several important subjects; viz. On war and its inconsistency with the Gospel. Observations on slavery. And remarks on the nature and bad effects of spirituous liquors. : [Twelve lines of quotations]
Author: Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.
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you but by his own act and deed, by his own voluntary choice. Away with ships, chains and all compulsion. Be gentle towards all men. And see that you invariably do unto every one, as you would he should do unto you.Remarks on the Nature and bad Effects of SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.THE common use of Spirituous liquors distilled from molasses, grain, fruit, &c. is a matter that calls for the particular attention of every lover of mankind.Several physicians of note,Doctor Hoffman, Clyne, Short, Lind, Buchan, &c. have given it as their sentiments, that those distilled spirits when taken in|wardly, even tho' mixed with water, destroy the hu|man frame; being burning spirits, the use of which bring on many fatal diseases, such as fevers, jaundice, dropsies, consumptions and whereby multitudes are daily destroyed. That they parch up and contract the stomach to half its natural size, like burnt leather, and rot the entrails as is evident not only by open|ing the bodies of those pesrons who are killed by drinking them; but also by what Doctor Hoffman says, was observed of the effects which the caut fiery remaining wash of the distillers, has on the gots of those hogs which in some places are sed by it: which are thereby so tendered, that puddings cannot be made in them: Wherefore all people who have any regard to their health and lives ought to tremble at the cravings for such poisonous liquors, which 0