THE CURSE OF BRITAIN: AN ESSAY ON THE EVILS, CAUSES, AND CURE OF INTEMPERANCE BY THE REV. W. R. BAKER. A NEW AND REVISED EDITION. "All the crimes on the earth do not destroy so many of the human race, "O madness! to think use of strongest wines, When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear Whose drink was only from the limpid brook." MILTON. LONDON: THOMAS WARD AND CO., SOLD ALSO AT THE DEPOSITARY OF THE NEW BRITISH AND FOREIGN TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, 14, TOKENHOUSE-YARD. 1840. No....... TO THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES, IN GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, This Essay IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THE AUTHOR; IN THE EARNEST HOPE THAT IT MAY BE RENDERED, BY THE GREAT SOURCE OF TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, IN SOME MEASURE, THE MEANS OF PROMOTING THE IMPORTANT OBJECT TO WHICH THEY ARE DEVOTED. |