 My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's...  The Science of Health - Page 359by Stephen Henry Ward - 1853 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alonzo Potter - 1868 - 44 pages
...pint at breakfast, with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another...he supposed, to drink strong beer, that he might be ttrong to labor. I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 pages
...pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another...it a detestable custom ; but it was necessary, he suppos'd, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong to labor. I endeavored to convince him that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pages
...cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six-o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work. I thought...it a detestable custom ; but it was necessary, he suppos'd, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong lo labor. I endeavored to convince him that... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1871 - 340 pages
...pressmen began before breakfast and only ended in the evening, taking three quarts of ale daily. " I thought it a detestable custom: but it was necessary, he supposed, to drink strong beer in order that he might be strong to labour. I endeavoured to convince him that the bodily strength... | |
 | Dawson Burns - 1873 - 232 pages
...pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another...supposed, to drink strong beer that he might be strong to labor. I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...pint at breakfast with hi? bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another...it a detestable custom ; but it was necessary, he suppos'd, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong to labor. I endeavored to convince him that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 pages
...pint at breakfast with hi? bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another...it a detestable custom ; but it was necessary, he suppos'd, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong to labor. I endeavored to convince him that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 pages
...breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his food, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work," — in all six pints per day. They had an alehouse boy always in attendance upon the workmen. " A detestable... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 pages
...pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, and another when he had done his day's work. I thought...supposed, to drink strong beer that he might be strong to labor. I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 pages
...pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work. I thought it a detestahle custom, but it was necessary, he supposed, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong... | |
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