...Hogarth's pictures. Its ravages were frightful. Lecky writes of it : " 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...

...became an English (principally a London) trade. Once started, it developed with alarming rapidity. " The fatal passion for drink was at once and irrevocably planted in the nation."1 Lecky tells us how the production of British spirits grew from some half-million gallons...

...when in consequence of low duties and no licensing, liquor became so plentiful 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," so that as a result "the fatal passion for drink was at once, irrevocably,...

...was not", says Lecky, the historian of England, "until 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". Danger in Concentrates At first alcoholic drinks were strong like gin, brandy, and strong wines; ale...

...whisky and gin (6.). " It was not," says Lecky, " until 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...

...recent occurrence in working men's lives: "It was not until about 1724 that the passion for gin drinking appears to have infected the masses of the population,...of an epidemic." 'The fatal passion for drink was the most momentous event of the entire 18th century, far overshadowing politics and wars in its effect...

...absurd loophole, every householder became a potential publican. About 1724 the passion for gin-drinking infected the masses of the population, and it spread with the rapidity of an epidemic. Lecky says ("England in the Eighteenth Century," ii. 101 ) : Small as is the place...

...was not", says Lecky, the historian of England, "until about 1/24 that the passion for gin drinking appears to have infected the masses of the population,...spread with the rapidity and violence of an epidemic". Danger in Concentrates At first alcoholic drinks were strong like gin, brandy, and strong wines ; ale...

...it WHS not until about 172-J, that the passion for gin-drinking appears to have infected the masse.? of the population and it 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...