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