"The fruits of Sobriety are health, gladness, governable passions, clear discernment, rectitude of opinion, the esteem of others, and long life; which, with an approving conscience, are the greatest blessings here below, and, in all common cases, an effectual security against a diseased imagination."
Of Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1783).<br>
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Beattie, James. <u>Dissertations Moral and Critical</u>. Printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Creech: London, 1783. Facsimile-Reprint: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1970.