 These measures laid the foundation of the great extension of the English manufacture of spirits, but it was not till about 1724 that the passion for gindrinking appears to have infected the masses of the population, and it spread with the rapidity and...  Democracy and Prohibition - Page 12by Byron Akbar Roloson - 1918 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1886 - 650 pages
...impression of it than can be had from any historian of our day. Lecky tells us : " The passion for gindrinking appears to have infected the masses of...the population, and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1878 - 1164 pages
...And 100 years later, another writer, Mr. Lecky, speaks as follows : — " About 1724 the passion for gin-drinking appears to have infected the masses of...the population, and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - History - 1878 - 660 pages
...extension of the English manufacture of spirits, but it was not till about 1724 that the passion for gin-drinking appears to have infected the masses of...the population, and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Temperance - 1879 - 178 pages
...that have flowed from it — the most momentous in that eighteenth century," because from that time " the fatal passion for drink was at once and irrevocably planted in the nation." Yes, it was only some 150 years ago that there began the disastrous era of the dram-shop and the gin-palace... | |
 | Henry Munson Lyman - 1881 - 366 pages
...population probably little exceeded five millions. ... It was not till about 1724 that the passion for gin-drinking appears to have infected the masses of...the population, and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. . . . . Retailers of gin were accustomed to hang out painted boards announcing... | |
 | Alfred W. Brown - 1885 - 246 pages
...wandering sheep, and that they always concluded * " It was not until about 1724 that the passion for gindrinking appears to have infected the masses of...spread with the rapidity and violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it was, probably, if we consider... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - Social history - 1886 - 510 pages
...the English manufacture of spirits, but it was not till about 1724 that the passion for gin drinking appears to have infected the masses of the population,...spread with the rapidity and violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it was probably, if we consider... | |
 | 1903 - 626 pages
...extension of the English manufacture of spirits, but it was not till about 1724 that the passion for gindrinking appears to have infected the masses of...spread with the rapidity and violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it was probably, if we consider... | |
 | Joseph Rowntree, Arthur Sherwell - Alcohol - 1906 - 636 pages
...the English manufacture of spirits, but it was not till about 1724 that the passion for gin drinking appears to have infected the masses of the population : and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it... | |
 | Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1915 - 296 pages
...the English manufacture of spirits, but it was not till about 1724 that the passion for ^in-drinking appears to have infected the masses of the population, and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English haetory, it... | |
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