The anatomy of drunkenness / by Robert Macnish ; with a sketch of the author's life.

  • Macnish, Robert, 1802-1837.
Date:
1850
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Credit: The anatomy of drunkenness / by Robert Macnish ; with a sketch of the author's life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    'xas trammels of school-education were most insufterable, and I look back to the floggings, wranglings, fightings, and heart- burnings of ray svh.^^o]boy-days, with the greatest loathing. Whenever the tension of scholastic bc::dage was removed, and I was left to do as I liked, I felt quite another being, and acquired the knowledge I was partial to with readiness and zeai. No boy at school was ever more flogged than I. My teachers I abhorred as insufierablo tyrants ; and Avhen I became a little older, was quite ungovernable, and constantly forming conspiracies against them. Flog- ging never did me any good, but rendered me much worse. Those only who treated me leniently could make anything of so rebellious a subject. Although at this period he displayed but little aptitude for learning, he gave occasional evidences of that extraordinary