Six Stages of Drunkenness

Shakespeare, who knew "a thing or two, "divided man's life into seven ages; and the eminent artist, to whose inventive skill we are indebted for the annexed illustrations, has seen proper to separate the different degrees of drunkenness by a division into six stages. The object of this classification, is, to exhibit the various phases of a debauch, from the first symptoms of brainreeling, to the profound insensibility which usually terminates the scene; and they who have read Dr. Macnish's treatise on the subject--if there are any who have not their own experience to trust to for a judgment--will perceive that the representations are philosophically true.