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Some enquiries into the effects of fermented liquors
Some enquiries into the effects of fermented liquors Author:Basil Montagu Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in. JfetmenteH JLiquors a necessary compliance toftfc a common custom of societp ? DR. JOHNSON. 1. Boswell. " The great difficulty of resisting wine i... more »s from benevolence. For instance, a good worthy man asks you to taste his wine, which he has had twenty years in his cellar." Johnson. " Sir, all this notion about benevolence arises from a man's imagining himself of more importance to others than he really is. They don't care a farthing whether he drinks wine or not." Sir Joshua Reynolds. " Yes they do for the time." J. " For the time ! if they care this minute, they forget it the next. And as for the good worthy man ; how do you know he is good and worthy ? No good and worthy man will insist upon another man's drinking wine. As to the wine twenty years in the cellar of ten men, three say this merely because they must say something ; three are .telling a lie when they saythey have had the wine twenty years; three would rather save the wine; one perhaps cares. I allow it is something to please one's company, and people are always pleased with those who partake pleasure with them. But after a man has brought himself to relinquish the great personal pleasure which arises from drinking wine, any other consideration is a trifle. To please others by drinking wine is something only if there be nothing against it. I should however be sorry to offend worthy men: " Curst be the verse how well soe'er it flow, " That tends to make one worthy man my foe." B." Curst be the spring, the water."J. " But let us consider what a sad thing it would be if we were obliged to drink or to do any thing else that may happen to be agreeable to the company we are in."Langton." By the, same rule you must join a gang of cut-purses." DON QUIXOTE. 2. " Truly, Madam, answ...« less