 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or Hour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made; that there was more flour...liquor; an expense I was free from. And thus these poor fellows keep themselves always under. Watts, after some weeks, desiring to have me in the composiiig-room,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 462 pages
...of which it was made; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more...pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor; an expense I was free from. And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 464 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1897 - 330 pages
...which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more...of beer. He drank on, however, and had four or five shillings2 to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor, an expense I was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...67 afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Biography - 1901 - 478 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | Richard Cameron - 1905 - 76 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made : that there was more flour...pint of water, it would give him more strength than a pint of beer. He drank on, however, and had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday... | |
| |
I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if... 
