| James Boswell - 1785 - 546 pages
...I wonder however, that fo many people have written, who might have let it alone. That people mould endeavour to excel in converfation, I do not wonder;...I remember (faid he) when all the decent people in Lichfieldgot drunk every night, and were not the worfe thought of. Ale was cheap, fo you prefled ftrongly.... | |
| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. ' I remember, (said he,) when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine, he... | |
| James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pages
...our drinking less than our ancestors, was owing to the change from ale to wine. " I remember, (said he,) when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine, he... | |
| James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. " I remember, (said he, ) when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were hot the worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. " I remember," said he, " when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk' every night, and were not the worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine, he... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. " I remember," said by innovations on the long-received customs of common life. worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine, he... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...drinking less ' than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. I remember, he ' added, when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were ' not the worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a ' man must bring a bottle of wine,... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...drinking lea: than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. " I remember," (aid he, " whea all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk ' every night, and were not the worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine, be... | |
| esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. " I remember." taid he, " when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine he... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...not easily go and immerse himself and "terity for ages in barbarism. CHANGES OF MANNERS. I remember when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine, he... | |
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