Drink (79 page)
Authors: Iain Gately
162 “We market women are up early”:
Ibid., p. 20.
Ibid., p. 20.
163 “Scorch Gut by nature”:
Ibid., p. 62.
Ibid., p. 62.
163 “the Landed Gentleman”:
Coffey, p. 673.
Coffey, p. 673.
164 “One may know by your Kiss, that your Ginn is excellent”:
The Beggars’ Opera
, John Gay, Project Gutenberg etext.
The Beggars’ Opera
, John Gay, Project Gutenberg etext.
164 “into all manner of vices and wickedness”:
Dillon, p. 90.
Dillon, p. 90.
165 “On Sunday night we took the child into the fields and stripp’d it”:
Dillon, p. 96.
Dillon, p. 96.
165 “came home so much intoxicated”:
Warner, p. 68.
Warner, p. 68.
166 “shrivel’d and old as though”:
Coffey, p. 671.
Coffey, p. 671.
166 “quite intoxicated with Gin”:
Dillon, p. 115.
Dillon, p. 115.
166 “to so great an excess, that Joss”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
166 “Why, the miserable creatures”:
Warner, p. 113.
Warner, p. 113.
167 “hush’d as death”:
Dillon, p. 148.
Dillon, p. 148.
168 “show twice as many burials”:
Coffey, p. 672.
Coffey, p. 672.
168 “pour forth unexpectedly from their gloomy cells”:
Dillon, p. 229.
Dillon, p. 229.
168 “more fond of dram-drinking”:
Ibid., p. 164.
Ibid., p. 164.
168 “paid over £1,000 to one of his five wine merchants”:
Coffey, p. 682.
Coffey, p. 682.
169 “We have mortgaged almost every fund”:
Parliamentary History
, 1743.
Parliamentary History
, 1743.
169 “We may not sell any thing”:
DD, p. 107.
DD, p. 107.
171 “the fineness or dullness of the weather”:
Dillon, p. 268.
Dillon, p. 268.
172 “from the melancholy consequences of gin-drinking”:
Ibid., p. 254.
Ibid., p. 254.
174 “in the space of ten years, I have observed”:
Ibid., p. 273.
Also
: Henry Fielding,
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
(1751), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988.
14 PROGRESS:Ibid., p. 273.
Also
: Henry Fielding,
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
(1751), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988.
175 “a perpetual comedy”:
Travels through France and Italy
, Tobias Smollet, Project Gutenberg etext.
Travels through France and Italy
, Tobias Smollet, Project Gutenberg etext.
176 “The wine commonly used in Burgundy”:
Smollet.
Smollet.
177 “The king was hunting, and found himself ”:
Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725-1798, to Paris and Prison,
Volume 2a—Paris, Trans. Arthur Machen, Project Gutenberg etext.
Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725-1798, to Paris and Prison,
Volume 2a—Paris, Trans. Arthur Machen, Project Gutenberg etext.
178 The Médoc is a canton in favor”:
1855:
A History of the Bordeaux Classification,
Dewey Markham Jr., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1998 p. 46.
1855:
A History of the Bordeaux Classification,
Dewey Markham Jr., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1998 p. 46.
178 “It is a generally recognized truth”:
Ibid., p. 45.
Ibid., p. 45.
178 “duff-draff drink”:
To the King
o’
er the Water, Scotland and Claret,
c. 1660-1763, Charles C. Liddington, Holt, p. 170.
To the King
o’
er the Water, Scotland and Claret,
c. 1660-1763, Charles C. Liddington, Holt, p. 170.
178 “Gude claret best keeps out the cold”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
179 “go home and not engage in such visionary pursuits”:
Cornell, p. 109.
fixed air:
dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Priestley-1772/Priestley-1772-Start.html
.
Cornell, p. 109.
fixed air:
dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Priestley-1772/Priestley-1772-Start.html
.
180 “fairly got the Disease of the Learned”:
The Creation of the Modern World,
Roy Porter, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2001, p. 89.
The Creation of the Modern World,
Roy Porter, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2001, p. 89.
180 “DRUNKENNESS, physically consider’d”:
Cyclopaedia
(1728) Vol. I, p. 249, online at
digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia02
.
Cyclopaedia
(1728) Vol. I, p. 249, online at
digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia02
.
181 “seldom, if ever, taste any wine,
John Locke,
Some Thoughts Concerning Education,
Section 19, 1692, etext
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1692locke-education.html
.
John Locke,
Some Thoughts Concerning Education,
Section 19, 1692, etext
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1692locke-education.html
.
181 “for the being and service and contemplation of man”:
Porter, p. 299.
Porter, p. 299.
181 “commands this species of animal to live”:
Ibid., p. 306.
Ibid., p. 306.
183 “Tea that helps our head and heart”:
Schama, p. 172.
Schama, p. 172.
184 “Were they the sons of tea-sippers”:
A Journal of Eight Days’ Journey,
London, Jonas Hanway, 1756.
A Journal of Eight Days’ Journey,
London, Jonas Hanway, 1756.
185 “hardened and shameless tea-drinker”:
Review of
A Journal of Eight days’ Journey
,
The Literary Magazine
2, No. 13, Samuel Johnson, 1757.
Review of
A Journal of Eight days’ Journey
,
The Literary Magazine
2, No. 13, Samuel Johnson, 1757.
186 “the returning situation of those persons”:
DD, p. 97.
DD, p. 97.
186 “the business of men is to be happy”:
Porter, p. 100.
15 REVOLUTIONPorter, p. 100.
187 “IV. However peaceably your Colonies have submitted”:
“Causes of the American Discontents before 1768,” Benjamin Franklin,
The London Chronicle,
Jan. 5-7, 1768.
“Causes of the American Discontents before 1768,” Benjamin Franklin,
The London Chronicle,
Jan. 5-7, 1768.
190 “a roasted ox, a hogshead of rum”:
Baron, p. 71.
Baron, p. 71.
191 “TO the Memory of the glorious NINETY-TWO”:
John Singleton Copley,
New England Silver & Silversmithing 1620-1815
, Eds. Jeannine Falino and Gerald W. R. Ward, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 2001, pp. 135-151.
John Singleton Copley,
New England Silver & Silversmithing 1620-1815
, Eds. Jeannine Falino and Gerald W. R. Ward, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 2001, pp. 135-151.
192 “that as the load of malt just arrived”:
Baron, p. 93.
Baron, p. 93.
193 “that we will not hereafter”:
Ibid., pp. 91-92.
Ibid., pp. 91-92.
193 “One family boiled it in a pot”:
Barr, p. 312.
Barr, p. 312.
194 “Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!”:
Ibid., p. 315.
Ibid., p. 315.
195 “rash, impolitic, and vindictive measures”:
Essex Gazette
, May 30, 1774.
Essex Gazette
, May 30, 1774.
195 “Resolved, that it be recommended”:
DD, p. 120.
DD, p. 120.
195 “would have made a rabbit bite a bulldog”:
Williams, p. 172.
Williams, p. 172.
195 “Without New England rum”:
1776
, David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005, p. 19.
1776
, David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005, p. 19.
196 “so Wine, and Punch will not be wanting”:
Letter, Horatio Gates to Benjamin Franklin, November 7, 1775.
Letter, Horatio Gates to Benjamin Franklin, November 7, 1775.
196 “Public Distilleries in different States”:
Williams, p. 173.
Williams, p. 173.
196 “wine cannot be distributed”:
Ibid., p. 174.
Ibid., p. 174.
197 “a head like a cannonball”:
McCullough, p. 35.
McCullough, p. 35.
197 “a shot had passed through his canteen”:
Williams, p. 173.
Williams, p. 173.
197 “I know not why we should blush to confess”:
Barr, p. 310.
Barr, p. 310.
198 “the Elk Hill and Beaver-dam hills”:
Thomas Jefferson,
Memoranda Taken on a Journey from Paris into the Southern Parts of France, and Northern of Italy, in the Year 1787,
Vol. II, Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Boston, 1830.
16 WARRA WARRAThomas Jefferson,
Memoranda Taken on a Journey from Paris into the Southern Parts of France, and Northern of Italy, in the Year 1787,
Vol. II, Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Boston, 1830.
200 “Cut yer name across me backbone”:
The Fatal Shore
, Robert Hughes, Vintage Books edition, New York, 1988, p. 292.
The Fatal Shore
, Robert Hughes, Vintage Books edition, New York, 1988, p. 292.
201 “a voyage which, before it was undertaken”:
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales,
Vol. 1, David Collins, London, 1798, Project Gutenberg etext.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales,
Vol. 1, David Collins, London, 1798, Project Gutenberg etext.
201 “That [Brazilians] have not learned the art”:
Hughes, p. 80.
Hughes, p. 80.
201-02 “half a pint of vile Rio spirits”:
Ibid., p. 97.
Ibid., p. 97.
202 “under the cover of this”:
Collins.
Collins.
202 “American beef, wine, rum, gin”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
202 “the Hope, commanded by a Mr. Benjamin Page”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
203 “the American spirit . . . by some means or other”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
203 “a woman of the name of Green”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
204 “Indian corn, properly malted”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
205 “recognized medium of exchange”:
Rum, Rebellion
, H. V. Evatt, Australia’s Great Books Edition, Silverwater, NSW, 1984, p. 26.
Rum, Rebellion
, H. V. Evatt, Australia’s Great Books Edition, Silverwater, NSW, 1984, p. 26.
205 “Convict servants were lavishly bestowed”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
205 “old tailors and shoe-makers”:
Ibid., p. 29.
Ibid., p. 29.
205 “a combination band was entered into”:
Ibid., p. 30.
Ibid., p. 30.
207 “as an article of barter”:
Ibid., p. 109.
Ibid., p. 109.
208 “this sink of iniquity Sydney”:
Ibid., p. 113.
Ibid., p. 113.
208 “become a perfect hell”:
Ibid., p. 120.
Ibid., p. 120.
209 “when heated by wine”:
Ibid., p. 192.
Ibid., p. 192.
209 “and those scenes of riot, tumult”:
Ibid., p. 221.
Ibid., p. 221.
210 “they obtain Spirits to what Amount”:
Ibid., p. 312.
Ibid., p. 312.
210 “the greatest part of his time”:
Ibid., p. 342.
Ibid., p. 342.
210 “forty thousand gallons of spirits . . .”:
Ibid., p. 328.
Ibid., p. 328.
213 “Bread he began to relish”:
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson,
Watkin Tench, London, 1793, Project Gutenberg etext.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson,
Watkin Tench, London, 1793, Project Gutenberg etext.
213 “and completely succeeded in trepanning”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
213 “Though haughty, [he] knew how to temporize”:
Ibid.
17 WHISKEY WITH ANIbid.
E
215 “How solemn and beautiful is the thought,”:
Life on the Mississippi,
Mark Twain (1883) Penguin Classics edition, New York, 1986, p. 411.
Life on the Mississippi,
Mark Twain (1883) Penguin Classics edition, New York, 1986, p. 411.
216 “an exceedingly valuable lead mine”:
The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucky,
John Filson, 1784, p. 290-etext on
www.americanjourneys.org
.
The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucky,
John Filson, 1784, p. 290-etext on
www.americanjourneys.org
.
216 “Wedn. 22nd we Start early”:
Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking
, Henry G. Growgey, University of Kentucky Press, 1971, p. 23.
Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking
, Henry G. Growgey, University of Kentucky Press, 1971, p. 23.
217 “a likely young Negroe”:
Ibid., p. 53.
Ibid., p. 53.
217 “odious, unequal, unpopular, and oppressive”:
Whiskey Rebels—The Story of a Frontier Uprising
, Leland D. Baldwin (Revised Edition, 1968), University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 64.
Whiskey Rebels—The Story of a Frontier Uprising
, Leland D. Baldwin (Revised Edition, 1968), University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 64.
217 “let loose a swarm of harpies”:
Ibid., p. 65.
Ibid., p. 65.
2
17 “the trifling affair”:
Ibid., p. 67.
17 “the trifling affair”:
Ibid., p. 67.
218 “a breath in favor of the law”:
Ibid., p. 80.
Ibid., p. 80.
218 “dwarfish, dumpy man with dark red hair”:
A History of the American People,
Paul Johnson, HarperPerennial edition, New York, 1999, p. 224.
A History of the American People,
Paul Johnson, HarperPerennial edition, New York, 1999, p. 224.
218 “Is the minister of the French republic”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
219 “horrible sink of treason”:
et seq, Baldwin, p. 94.
et seq, Baldwin, p. 94.
220 “I thought it better to be employed”:
Ibid., p. 162.
Ibid., p. 162.
221 “warlike, accustomed to the use of arms”:
Ibid., p. 178.
Ibid., p. 178.
222 “my hammer is up”:
Ibid., p. 204.
Ibid., p. 204.
222 “No sooner does the drum beat”:
Ibid., p. 232.
Ibid., p. 232.
222 “in Company with a great number”:
Ibid., p. 252.
Ibid., p. 252.
224 “all the loose females”:
The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
, Herbert Asbury, 1936, 2003, Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, p. 4.
The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
, Herbert Asbury, 1936, 2003, Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, p. 4.
225 “man, like the squirrel in a cage”:
Ibid., p. 72.
Ibid., p. 72.
226 “For a picayune”:
Ibid., p. 101.
Ibid., p. 101.
228 “She was as clean and dainty as a drawing room”:
Twain, p. 303.
Twain, p. 303.
229 “As thirsty as I was”:
Come Hell or High Water,
Michael Gillespie, Great River Publishing, Stoddard, Wisconsin, 2001, p. 156.
Come Hell or High Water,
Michael Gillespie, Great River Publishing, Stoddard, Wisconsin, 2001, p. 156.
230 “Strangers especially are warned”:
Barr, p. 38.
Barr, p. 38.
230 “Recipte for the Eyaws”:
Growgey, p. 73.
Growgey, p. 73.
231 “Nine million women and children”:
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition,
W. J. Rorabaugh, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979, p. 11.
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition,
W. J. Rorabaugh, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979, p. 11.
231 “three cocktails and a chaw”:
Johnson, p. 402.
Johnson, p. 402.
232 “distinguished on the best tables of Europe”:
Ibid., p. 383.
Ibid., p. 383.
233 “Were it possible for me to speak”:
DD, p. 174.
DD, p. 174.
235 “this infant country has reached a maturity”:
Ibid., p. 169.
Ibid., p. 169.
235 “with a Constitution and by-laws”:
Ibid., p. 181.
Ibid., p. 181.
235 “No member shall drink rum, gin, whiskey”:
Ibid., p. 182.
18 ROMANTIC DRINKINGIbid., p. 182.
239 “I have been drunk more than once”:
The Sorrows of Young Werther,
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Catherine Hutter, New American Library Edition, New York, 1962, p. 58.
The Sorrows of Young Werther,
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Catherine Hutter, New American Library Edition, New York, 1962, p. 58.
240 “The ruddy complexion, nimbleness, and strength”:
Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story,
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, KCMG, Putnam & Company, London, 4th Edition 1970, p. 8.
Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story,
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, KCMG, Putnam & Company, London, 4th Edition 1970, p. 8.
240 “Let other poets raise a fracas”:
A Choice of Burns’s Poems and Songs,
Faber & Faber, London, 1966, p. 103.
A Choice of Burns’s Poems and Songs,
Faber & Faber, London, 1966, p. 103.
241 “O temperate bard!”:
William Wordsworth, Prelude III 304-07.
William Wordsworth, Prelude III 304-07.
241 “gross and violent stimulants”:
Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830 (Romanticism in Perspective),
Anya Taylor, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998, p. 39.
Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830 (Romanticism in Perspective),
Anya Taylor, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998, p. 39.
242 “It is because so few things give him pleasure”:
Ibid., p. 57.
Ibid., p. 57.
242 “Ye drinkers of Stingo and Nappy so free”:
Ibid., p. 95.
Ibid., p. 95.
242 “Wine - some men = musical Glasses”:
Ibid., p. 100.
Ibid., p. 100.
243 “rotten drunkard . . . rotting out his entrails”:
Ibid., p. 103.
Ibid., p. 103.
243 “You shall drink Rum, Brandy”:
Ibid., p. 76.
Ibid., p. 76.
243 “The very thoughts of your coming”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
243 “and pretty smart stuff it is”:
Taylor, p. 58.
Taylor, p. 58.
243 “now I like Claret whenever I can”:
Ibid., p. 172.
Ibid., p. 172.
244 “covered his tongue & throat”:
Ibid., p. 173.
Ibid., p. 173.
244 “Man, being reasonable, must get drunk”:
Don Juan
CLXXIX.
Don Juan
CLXXIX.
245 “Wine robs a man of his self-possession”:
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
, Thomas De Quincy, Penguin Classics edition, p. 73.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
, Thomas De Quincy, Penguin Classics edition, p. 73.
245 “Opium, like wine, gives an expansion”:
Ibid., p. 84.
Ibid., p. 84.
247 “excluded from all rational enjoyment”:
Taylor, p. 24.
Taylor, p. 24.
247 “self-made cheesemonger”:
Drink and the Victorians: The temperance Question in England, 1815-1872,
Brian Harrison, Faber and Faber, London, 1971, p. 117.
Drink and the Victorians: The temperance Question in England, 1815-1872,
Brian Harrison, Faber and Faber, London, 1971, p. 117.
248 “to the surprise and conviction”:
Ibid., p. 122.
Ibid., p. 122.
248 “Whisky is the soul of beer”:
Ibid., p. 125.
Ibid., p. 125.
248 “that he would ‘Be reet down out”:
Ibid., p. 126.
Ibid., p. 126.
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