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" Canarie-wine, which beareth the name of the islands from whence it is brought, is of some termed a sacke, with this adjunct, sweete; but yet very improperly, for it differeth not only from sacke in sweetness and pleasantness of taste, but also in colour... "
Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the ... - Page 289
by Thomas Wright - 1857
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...with this adjunct, siaeete; but yet very improperly, for it differeth not only from sacke in sweetness and pleasantness of taste, but also in colour and...more nutritive than sack, and less penetrative.— White wine, Rhenish wine, &c. — do in six or seaven moneths, or within, according to the smallness...
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Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...with this adjunct, seieete; but yet very improperly, for it differeth not only from sacke in sweetnest and 'pleasantness of taste, but also in colour and...in substance ; wherefore it is more nutritive than suck, and less penetrative — White wine, Rhenish wine, &c.— do in six or seaven moneths, or within,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 pages
...with this adjunct, sweete; but yet very improperly, for it differeth not only from sacke in guieetness and pleasantness of taste, but also in colour and...wherefore it is more nutritive than sack, and less penetrative.—White wine, Rhenish wine, &c.—do in six or seven moneths, or within, according to...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 460 pages
...sraeete; but yet very improperly, for it differeth not only from sacke in sweetness and pleasantness nf taste, but also in colour and consistence, for it...is more nutritive than sack, and less penetrative. — While wine, Rhenish wine, &c. — do in six or seven 'rhoneths, or within, according to the smallness...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 16

Scotland - 1824 - 822 pages
...t&eete, but yet very improperly, for it differeth not onely from Sacke, in sweetnesse and pleasantnesse of taste, but also in colour and consistence ; for it is not so white in colour as Sacke, nor so thin in substance ; wherefore it is more nutritive than Sacke, and lesse penetrative....
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A History and Description of Modern Wines

Cyrus Redding - Wine - 1851 - 460 pages
...sweete, but yet very improperly, for it differeth not only from sacke in sweetness and pleasantnesse of taste, but also in colour and consistence : for it is not so white in colour as sacke, nor so thin in substance." This author says nothing of mixing sugar with this Canary sacke....
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The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe ..., Volume 46

Shuttleworth family - England - 1858 - 440 pages
...Canary is of some termed a sweet sack, yet improperly, for it differeth not only from sack in sweetness and pleasantness of taste, but also in colour and consistence ; for it is not so white nor so thin as sack ; wherefore it is more nutritive than sack and less penetrative. The following...
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine ..., Volume 46

Cheshire (England) - 1858 - 430 pages
...Canary is of some termed a sweet sack, yet improperly, for it differeth not only from sack in sweetness and pleasantness of taste, but also in colour and consistence ; for it is not so white nor so thin as sack ; wherefore it is more nutritive than sack and less penetrative. The following...
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A GLOSSARY

ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 496 pages
...very improperly. for it diflferelii not only from sacke in sweetncssc am' pleasantness of taste, hut also in colour and consistence, for it is not so white...thin in substance ; wherefore it is more nutritive tlmn sack, and less penetrative. „ See SACK. Venneri Via recta ad Vit. longam, Ito, 1C--. [In the...
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions ..., Volume 1

Robert Nares - English language - 1859 - 502 pages
...it differeth not only from sacke in sweetness«- mill pleasant ness of taste, hut also in colour nnd consistence, for it is not so white in colour as sack,...in substance ; wherefore it is more nutritive than suck, and less penetrative. Vtancri Via recta tut fit. long**, 4to, 1K1. See SACK. [In the following...
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