The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

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Ie was never sick, and drank only water. The venerable lVe.sl,ey, who died at the age of 88, and performed
labors almost unexampled for combined and continuous
mental and corporeal effort, was very delicate in early
life, but, by abstinence and careful diet, overcame very
serious ailments and attained patriarchal years. Dr. A.
Fothergill, in his essay on spirituous liquors, says: "My
worthy fi-iend, Dr. B. Pitgh, of Midford Castle, having
from early youth abstained from wines, spirits, and fermented liquors, declares that at this moment he not only
enjoys superior health and vivacity, but feels himself as
capable of every mental or corporeal exertion as he did
at twenty-five, though now in the eighty-second year of
his age." The late Earl Stanhope stated that his grandfalzer was a water-drinker, and at seventy-two devoted
several hours a day to abstruse mathematical studies;
and that his grazndmo/her, who was the same, and enjoyed
the use of her ordinary faculties to extreme old age, died
at 93. T'7zomas Winsloe, who died in I796, aged I46 years,
was exceedingly abstemious in regard to his diet; as was
also yohiz TVood, who died in I8I8, aged J22. T.hollas
Lavgher, who died in I813, aged II3, never drank strong
beer, small beer. or spirits. Jlary Polter, aged io6, died
in i839, at Larkhill, near Bath; she never drank beer or
spirits. lfr. Crossevy, of Uttoxeter, aged loo years and 9
months, had used milk for many years as his principal
beverage. AIfrs. Parker, who died 1837, aged Io9, had
abstained from spirituous liquors all her life..V. D'zie,
of Oxford, died at the age of 95, in 1843. He had never
drunk alcoholic liquors, nor had his father and grandfather, who lived to the ages of I02 and io8. Mrs. Cox, of
Bybrook, Jamaica, who died in I83I, and was reckoned to
have attained i6o years, had drunk only water dcluring her
life. The 7z,maica Roy,al Gazetle contained the notice of
an old black woman, who died I40 years old. She de clared she never drank anything but water. She lived on
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