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Page 33
... sweet vice " is of much higher antiquity . It is common to attribute the origin of chemistry to the Arabs , forgetting who , and what the Arabs were ; and thus they have also put in their claims , through the hands of their partial ...
... sweet vice " is of much higher antiquity . It is common to attribute the origin of chemistry to the Arabs , forgetting who , and what the Arabs were ; and thus they have also put in their claims , through the hands of their partial ...
Page 34
... Sweet wine is capable of undergoing the acetous fermentation while the sugar is still existing in it in excess ; so that the result is to have a mixture of sugar and wine with vinegar . And in this case also the complete acetification ...
... Sweet wine is capable of undergoing the acetous fermentation while the sugar is still existing in it in excess ; so that the result is to have a mixture of sugar and wine with vinegar . And in this case also the complete acetification ...
Page 37
... sweet wines . That is no great proof of their taste . All Homer's best wines are sweet . They mixed honey with them ; and the same acumen of taste distinguished the heroes of Valhalla , whose eternal pork was washed down with no less ...
... sweet wines . That is no great proof of their taste . All Homer's best wines are sweet . They mixed honey with them ; and the same acumen of taste distinguished the heroes of Valhalla , whose eternal pork was washed down with no less ...
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... sweet , and it is probable that they were the very same as those of our own day . Chios , Samos , Tenedos , Cy- prus , and so on . Those wines were in fact the produce of the Ionian and Egean islands ; of Lesbos , Chios , Thasos ...
... sweet , and it is probable that they were the very same as those of our own day . Chios , Samos , Tenedos , Cy- prus , and so on . Those wines were in fact the produce of the Ionian and Egean islands ; of Lesbos , Chios , Thasos ...
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... sweet wines . If so , the tastes of Homer and Horace do not appear to have been quite so different as their poetry . Of the Falernian , all have read , and some may fancy they have drank . Whether it be as immortal as Martial prophesied ...
... sweet wines . If so , the tastes of Homer and Horace do not appear to have been quite so different as their poetry . Of the Falernian , all have read , and some may fancy they have drank . Whether it be as immortal as Martial prophesied ...
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