The foregoing remarks, of course, will vary according to the position, means, and other contingent circumstances of each individual case. That which would be considered temper ate ia a rich man, would be accounted the utmost extrav agance in a man who earns by tie sweat of his brow only fifteen or twenty shillings a week. The man who ocen pies a high position on the social scale, may commit ex cesses with impunity, which would stigmatize the poor man with the meanest epithets of vice and sensuality. Thus you will observe the innumerable meanings that may be attached to the word Temperance, depending entirely upon adventitious circumstances.

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