The Philosophy of Artificial and Compulsory Drinking Usage in Great Britain and Ireland: Containing the Characteristic, and Exclusively National, Convivial Laws of British Society ...Houlston and Stoneman, 1839 - 331 من الصفحات |
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abrogation anti-usage apprentice footing attend backing of 6d bargain birth bottle boys brandied wines Britain called cant language Christmas-boxes circumstances classes clothes COMPULSORY DRINKING connexion consequence courtesy Coventry customs dinner dirty shirt Donnybrook Donnybrook fair dram drink fines drink-money drinking usages drunk drunkards drunkenness Dunlop employer entry etiquette evil favour friends funeral gentleman give given glass habits hand honour individual inebriation informant has known informant has seen Ireland journeyman's footing labour ladies leave liquor marriage master meet Miss Marjoribanks night North Britain obtain occasion operatives paid party pay-night penalties perance pernicious pint port wine practice public-house ranks receive refused rules Scotland Scottish sent to Coventry servants shillings sometimes spent in drink Teetotalism Temperance Societies three kingdoms tion total abstinence town treat USAGES CONTINUED usual wages way-goose week wetted whisky wine workmen young
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الصفحة 321 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
الصفحة 100 - And they hae taen his very heart's blood, And drank it round and round; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound. John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise ; For if you do but taste his blood, Twill make your courage rise. 'Twill make a man forget his woe; 'Twill heighten all his joy : 'Twill make the widow's heart to sing, Tho
الصفحة 322 - And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall, he corrupt by flatteries ; but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
الصفحة 93 - But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings tease him: Death comes, wi' fearless eye he sees him; Wi' bluidy hand a welcome gies him : An' when he fa's, His latest draught o' breathin lea'es him In faint huzzas.
الصفحة 93 - Wi' yill-caup Commentators : Here's crying out for bakes an' gills, An' there the pint-stowp clatters ; While thick an' thrang, an' loud an' lang, Wi' logic, an' wi' Scripture, They raise a din, that in the end Is like to breed a rupture ' . O
الصفحة 231 - The punishment generally consists in the criminal providing a libation, by which the offending workmen may wash away the stain that his misconduct has laid upon the body at large. Should the plaintiff not be able to substantiate his charge, the fine then falls upon himself for having maliciously arraigned his companion ; a mode of practice which is marked with the features of sound policy, as it never loses sight of the good of the chapel.
الصفحة 93 - Leeze me on Drink ! it gies us mair Than either School or College : It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep, Or ony stronger potion, It never fails, on drinking deep, To kittle up our notion By night or day, XX. The lads an' lasses, blythely bent To mind baith saul an' body, Sit round the table, weel content, An' steer about the toddy. On this ane's dress, an...
الصفحة 268 - Ffrom this daye forwarde to the ende of my life, I will never pledge anye health, nor drink a whole carouse in a glass...
الصفحة 231 - ... the first intimation of which he makes to the father of the chapel, usually the oldest printer in the house : who, should he conceive that the charge can be substantiated, and the injury, supposed to have been received, is of such magnitude as to call for the interference of...
الصفحة 265 - It is not usual," he remarks, " to take wine (during dinner in England) without drinking to another person. When you raise your glass, you look fixedly at the one with whom you are drinking, bow your head, and then drink with great gravity. Certainly many of the customs of the South Sea islanders, which strike us the most, are less ludicrous.