Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Merriment is always the effect of sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.—Johnson. Wits, when heated with wine, generally run over, and exemplify the observation on the flying fish, which “ soars highest when its wings are wet.” Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones, you must keep them wet.—Coleridge. What the bottle tells (which is generally a great tell-tale,) perhaps, it is the duty of friendship to keep secret. It is as well not to trust one’s gratitude afterdinner. Ihave heard many a host libelled by his guests, with his Burgundy yet reeking on their rascally lips.—Lord Byron. After dinner is after dinner, an old saying and a true; much drinking, little thinking.—Swift. A sot has been defined to be, “a man with a red face, and a nose exaggerated by intemperancewhich phraseology is a kind of spirit varnish. Intemperance is to be measured not by the quantity of wine, but by its effect on the constitution; not by cups, but consequences. Let no man fancy because he does not drink much that he is not a sot. Pope said that to him more than one glass was a debauch; and every man who habitually takes more than his stomach can bear, sooner or later arrives at those miseries, which are the effects of hard drinking. Every healthy toper is a decoy-duck, and no more proves that health is safe in intemperance, than an unwounded soldier that life is secure in battle. “Strength of nature in youth,” says Lord Bacon, “ passes over many excesses which are owing a man till his age.” Drunkenness, amongst persons of character and educa- tion, is considered, as it ought to be, at once sinful and de- grading. The consequence has been increased longevity, and the disappearance among the upper grades of society, of a host of distempers that follow in the train of inebriety. —Brande. Voltaire defines a physician tobe an unfortunate gentleman,
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