"Drunkenness."

Title

"Drunkenness."

Subject

Irish periodicals -- English.
English periodicals -- Ireland.
Irish periodicals.

Description

Excerpt from page 64 of volume 2 of the Dublin Penny Journal for 1834.

Creator

Hardy, Philip Dixon

Source

The Dublin Penny Journal.

Publisher

Dublin : J.S. Folds

Date

1834

Rights

Please contact the Special Collections and Archives Department of DePaul University Library regarding rights and any reproduction.

Format

Text

Language

English

Identifier

SPC. 052.05 D81

Text

DRUNKENNESS.
Many fashionable young men of the present age seem to take a degree of pleasure in inebriety. They will insinuate, even to ladies, their fetes of the bottle, by inuendos, "I've been keeping it up last night," &c. but this is founded upon bad principles, and worse taste. If they would reflect that drunkenness particularly degrades a man from the station he holds a relative to the fair sex--it would soon be out of fashion. The Athenians made severe laws against drunkards, and in magistrates it was punished with death, by a law of Solon. The Lacedemonians also proscribed it, and used to expose drunken slaves before the youths to excite disgust. --The Nervii used no wine, lest they should become effeminate. Women were punished severely among the Romans, for that vice. Neither Carthagenians nor Saracens used wine; and Mahomet had wise reasons in forbidding it. The Spanish word for drunkard is barachio (a pig skin) evidently figurative, and a term of degradation, because they carry their wine in a skin tied at both ends; and even the Cherokee Indians have enacted the severest penalties against the use of spirituous liquors.

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Citation

Hardy, Philip Dixon, “"Drunkenness.",” DePaul University Special Collections and Archives, accessed March 29, 2024, https://dpuspecialcollections.omeka.net/items/show/3945.