 | 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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We talked of change of manners. Dr. Johnson observed that 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... 
