 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the m by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my Annabel Lee — 10 With would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank... | |
 | Deets Pickett - Prohibition - 1926 - 144 pages
...strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in 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 - 1927 - 274 pages
...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...quart of beer. He drank on, however, and had four to five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor; an expense... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 300 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 Penny-worth of Bread, and therefore if he would eat that with a Pint of Water, it would give him more Strength than a Quart ofBeer. He drank... | |
 | Herbert A. Applebaum - Social Science - 1992 - 664 pages
...be in propotion to the Grain or Flour of the Barley dissolved in the Water of which it was made; and 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... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1146 pages
...of which it was made; that there was more Flour in a Pennyworth of Bread, and therefore if he would 4p3 c 3 Oa \D ШKkX5 ۪ Dƾ7GX$>SAeUl) ] J Y _ O )" ez fe] m & had 4 or 5 Shillings to pay out of his Wages every Saturday Night for that muddling Liquor; an Expence... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1148 pages
...Strength afforded by Beer could only be in proportion to the Grain or Flour of the Barley dissolved in the an beads which serves for change. Pay as mony is provisions, as aforesaid one Third cheaper then as would eat that with a Pint of Water, it would give him more Strength than a Quart of Beer. — He drank... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 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 Penny-worth 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 588 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 576 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... 
