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8369. TEMPERANCE, Principles of.—
I
have received and read with thankfulness and
pleasure your denunciation of the abuses of
tobacco and wine. Yet, however sound in its
principles, I expect it will be but a sermon to
the wind. You will find it * * * difficult
to inculcate these sanative precepts on the sensualities
of the present day.—
To Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse. Washington ed. vii, 252.
Ford ed., x, 219.
(M.
1822)
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