 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1840 - Počet stránok 1078
...drunk for two-pence, clean straw for nothing?* Smollet makes the following remark upon this fact : " They accordingly provided cellars and places strewed...wretches who were overwhelmed with intoxication : in those dismal caverns they lay until they recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - Počet stránok 540
...boards in public, inviting people to be drunk for the small expense of one penny; assuring them they might be dead drunk for twopence, and have straw for...intoxication. In these dismal caverns they lay until they recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion ;... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - Počet stránok 464
...up painted boards, inviting people to be drunk at the small expense of one penny, assuring them they might be dead drunk for twopence, and have straw for nothing ! They accordingly provided cellars or garrets strewed with straw, to which they conveyed those poor wretches who were overpowered with... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1843 - Počet stránok 396
...two-pence, clean straw for nothing.' "* Smollet makes the following remark upon this subject : — ' ' They accordingly provided cellars and places strewed...wretches who were overwhelmed with intoxication : in those dismal caverns tîiey lay until they recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1844 - Počet stránok 986
...boards in public, inviting people to be drunk for the small expense of one penny; assuring them they might be dead drunk for twopence, and have straw for...intoxication. In these dismal caverns they lay until they recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion ;... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - Počet stránok 516
...intended." public, inviting [people to be drunk for the small expense of one penny ; assuring them they might be dead drunk for two-pence, and have straw...those wretches who were overwhelmed with intoxication Such beastly practices too plainly denoted a total want of all policy and civil regulation, and would... | |
 | Peter Burne - 1847 - Počet stránok 482
...dead drunk for two-pence, and have clean straw for nothing."* " They accordingly," says Smollet, " provided cellars and places strewed with straw, to...had recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion ; thus consuming their health, and ruining their families,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - Počet stránok 568
...boards in public, inviting people to be drunk for the small expense of one penny ; assuring them they might be dead drunk for two-pence, and have straw...had recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion ; thus consuming their health and ruining their families,... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1848 - Počet stránok 566
...boards in public, inviting people to be drunk for the small expense of one penny ; assuring them they might be dead drunk for two-pence, and have straw...had recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion ; thus consuming their health and ruining their families,... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - Počet stránok 432
...and have clean strawfor nothing," " They accordingly," says Smollett, in his ' History of England,' " provided cellars and places strewed with straw, to...had recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion; thus consuming their health, and ruining their families,... | |
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Such a shameful degree of profligacy prevailed, that the retailers of this poisonous compound set up painted boards in public, inviting people to be drunk for the small expense of one penny ; assuring them they might be dead drunk for two-pence, and have... 
