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Excess of it has surely nothing that's good, nothing that's
pleasant. Wine destroys the fairest beauty and spoils
the strongest Constitution yet this is called a mighty ——
pleasure. but to every cool and dispassionate Judge it will
appear sufficiently manifest, how great is, the unhappiness
that is. frequently the attendant upon drunkeness: No
sooner is any oneheated with Wine, but his Limbs become
heavy his tottering foot refuse to perform their accustomed
offices, his Tongue stammers, — his speach is broken, his
mind and reason are suspended— his Eyes swim with
moisture, he grows horribly noise, then bitter qualms
ensue, to this loathsome vomiting succeeds, and Grievous
Headachs— till, at length, he becomes stupid and ——
insensible throughout. This is the whole of the ——
drunkards pleasure — which no one surely — in their Senses will
say has any claim to happiness, for when once deprived
of that divine particle within us our reason, I can't conceive
any thing more miserable, any thing more unhappy than
man: But reason in a drunkard is so far buried in Wine

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	"Sperne Voluptates, nocet empta dolore Voluptas"
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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