Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-10-08

black depths could DC neaTu, Wouiu
CRY out 10 all those who have but set
foot in the perilous flood. Could the
youth to whom the faveur Of his first
wine is delicious as the opening scenes
of life, or the entering upon some new.
lv discovered paradise, look into my
desolation, and be made to understand
what dreary thing it is, when man
shall feel himself going down preci-
pice with open eyes and a passive will
TO see his destruction and have no
power to stop it, and yet to feel it all
the way emenating from himself; to
perceive all goodness emptied out of
him, and yet not be able TO forget a
time when it was otherwise to bear
about the piteous spectacle o: his own
self.ruins could he see my fevered
eye, feversh with last nights drinking,
and feverishly looking for this night's
repetition of the folly; could he feel
the body of the death out of which |
cry hourly, with feebler and feebler out
cry, to be dellvered-it were nough to
make him dash the sparkling beverage
to the earth in allthe pride ofits mant.
ling temptation"
90, if wish could transport me
back to those days of youth, when
draught from the next clear spring
could Stake any heats which summer
suns and youthful exercise had power
to stir up in the blood, how gladly
would | return to thee, pure element,
the drink of children, and of the child
like holy hermit In my dreams, | can
sometimes fancy thy cool refreshment
purling over my burning tongue. But
my waking stomach rejects it. That
which refreshes innocence only makes
me sick and faint.
Twelve years ago / was possessed
of healthy frame Of mind and body.
| was never strong, but think my
constitution (for weak one) was as
happily exempt from the tendency to
any malady as it was possible to be.
acarce knew what it was to all any
thing Now, except when ain losing
myself in a sea of drink, l am never
free from those uneasy sensations In
head and stomach, which are SO much
worss to bear than any definite pains
or aches.
CAT that time I was seldom i'll bed
after six in the morning, ! awoke re-
freshed. and seldom without some mer.
ry thoughts in my head, or some piece
of a song to welcome the new born day.
Now the first feeling which besets me,
after stretching out the hours of re-
membrance to their last possible extent,
is forecast of the wearisome day that
lies before me, with secret wish that
could have lain on still, or never ava
kened. -
CT can hardly think" says Sir Tho
mas Brown, 'sthere was ever any sea-
red into Heaven :" he felt more tempt
ed by the Joys of Heaven than terrified
by the sufferings of hell. DR.. Reid adj
vises that in eDdeavoring to reform
drunkard we should tempt him by pic.
turing the sweets Of temperance, ra-
Their than terrify him by the miseries
of perseverance in his habits. He re-
commends sudden in preference to gra.
dual weaving.
"The habit Of indulgence In wine is
not more pernicious than it is obsti-
nate and tenacious in its hold, when
once it has forced itself upon the con-
stitutioD. It's not to be conquered oy
half measures: no compromise with 1t
is allowable; the victory over it, ID or
der to be permanent, must be Periece
as long as there turks reflex OF II In
the frame, there is danger OF relapse
of this moral malady, from which there
seldom is, as from physical disorders
gradual convalescence, The man
who has been the slave OF lntemper-
ance must renounce her altogether, or
she will insensibly resume her despot.
lex mower. With such mistress, it
he seriously mean to discard her, he
must indulge himself in no dalliance or
DELAY. He must not allow his lips a
taste of her former fascination.
webb, the celebrated walker. who
was remarkable for vigor, both Of body
and mind, drank nothing but water.
He was ore day recommending his re-
gimen to friend who loved wine, and
urged him with great earnestness to
quit course of luxury. by which his
health and his intellects would be equal
ly destroyed. The gentleman appear
ed to be convinced, and told him that
he would conform to his counsel, though
he thought he could not change bis
course of life 1t once, but would leave
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