The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman

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Excerpt from The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman: Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, From Highly Finished Drawings by E. T. Parris

I returned to England after many long and weary years of absence, rather worse in health than when I left it; as the incursions made on my already debilitated constitution, bv undue heat, unlooked for winds, and unwholesome diet, instead of retarding, tended to advance, the effects of that cruel enemy, Time. Wine too sour to admit of its copious use, food too insipid to induce even a gourmand, much less an epi cure, to commit an' excess, enforce the adoption of temperance on those who are the most opposed to it; and this virtue, so seldom practised at home.

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