 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 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 - 1891 - 566 pages
...drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. ' I remember, (said her) 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 - 1892
...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 - 1900 - 556 pages
...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 of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine, he... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902 - 850 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 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 - 1928 - 368 pages
...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 of. Ale was cheap, so you pressed strongly. When a man must bring a bottle of wine, he... | |
 | 1912 - 768 pages
...age. But Johnson avers that even in his day people drank less than their ancestors, for he recollects when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night and did not gain a bad name thereby. Beer was the beverage chiefly drunk in those days, for when wine became... | |
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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... 
