 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Statesmen - 1876 - 394 pages
...bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour...of his wages, every Saturday night, for that vile 4* liquor ; an expense I was free from ; and thus these poor devils keep themselves always under."... | |
 | John Guthrie - Alcohol - 1877 - 368 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made, that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread, and, therefore, that if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1886 - 256 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | Pharmaceutical industry - 1915 - 464 pages
...of which it was made; and there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He dank on, however, and had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that... | |
 | Walter W. Spooner - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - 1891 - 684 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made; that there was more flour...would give him more strength than a quart of beer, lie drank on, however, and had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography - 1892 - 202 pages
...which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more...pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor ; an expense I was free from. And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
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I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if... 
