Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their Production, Together with a Study of the Customs Connected with Their Use, Volume 2G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 |
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Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their ..., Volume 2 Edward Randolph Emerson Volledige weergave - 1908 |
Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their ..., Volume 2 Edward Randolph Emerson Volledige weergave - 1908 |
Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their ..., Volume 2 Edward Randolph Emerson Volledige weergave - 1908 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 234 - sending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by " their Wassels at New Year's Tide. — They present " you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby " Stuff; but the Meaning is, you must give them " Money ten Times more than it is worth.
Pagina 294 - The highways in Scotland are tolerably good, which is the greatest comfort a traveller meets with amongst them; they have not inns, but changehouses (as they call them) poor small cottages, where you must be content to take what you find...
Pagina 238 - ... wee have in many ale-houses of the citie and suburbs, tip't with silver, besides the great black jacks and bombards at the court, which when the Frenchmen first saw, they reported at their returne into their countrey, that the Englishmen used to drink out of their bootes...
Pagina 379 - The pods are left in a heap on the ground for about twenty-four hours ; they are then cut open and the seeds are taken out and carried in baskets to the place where they undergo the operation of sweating or curing. There the acid juice which accompanies the seeds is first drained off, after which they are placed in a...
Pagina 239 - Bath, and one of the crowd of her admirers took a glass of the water in which the fair one stood, and drank her health to the company. There was in the place a gay fellow, half-fuddled, who offered to jump in, and swore, though he liked not the liquor, he would have the toast.
Pagina 241 - According to the custom of the country the landladies sup with the strangers and passengers, and if they have daughters they are also of the company, to entertain the guests at table with pleasant conceits, where they drink as much as the men. But what is to me the most disgusting in all this is, that when one drinks the health of any person in company, the custom of the country does not permit you to drink more than half the cup, which is filled up, and presented to him or her whose health you have...
Pagina 235 - An old way of drinking exactly to a pin in the midst of a wooden cup, which being somewhat difficult, occasioned much drunkenness; so a law was made that Priests, Monks, and Friars, should not drink to or at the Pins.
Pagina 423 - Mexico and that is kneaded together like unto ooze [oas] of the sea. They gathered much of this and kept it in heaps, and made thereof cakes like unto brick-bats. And they did not only sell this ware in the market, but also sent it abroad to other fairs and markets afar off; and they did eat this meal with as good a stomach as we eat cheese; yea and they hold opinion that this scum or fatness of the water is the cause that such great number of fowl cometh to the lake, which...
Pagina 204 - In this way the finer products of the Douro vintages have remained in a great measure unknown to us, and port wine has come to be considered as a single liquor, if I may use the expression, of nearly uniform flavour and strength; varying it is true, to a certain extent in quality, but still always approaching to a definite standard, and admitting of few degrees of excellence.
Pagina 245 - ... thy children, dare With the bright Trinitie boys compare ? Mingling their ale with bookish learning, They acquire by such means keen discerning, And thus (in a circle arguing) steer Between the extremes of books and beer. Other men, — somehow or other, — pine Whether they trust to Greek or wine. Oh, in truth, it gladdens the heart to see What may spring from the Ale of Trinitie, — A scholar — a fellow — a rector blithe, ( Fit to take any amount of tithe) — Perhaps a bishop — perhaps,...