Word: wineing
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...frightful tirade he commences. It is useless to suggest that the best men in England and this country do not approve or practice total abstinence. No one can tell, he truly says, how much more eminent they would be did they not muddle their brains with wine. And then the bad example! But notwithstanding such arguments, no one can deny that he who is moderate is not intemperate. How to have an assurance that men will be and will remain moderate, is the problem. Just as with some classes the desire for property enforces moderation in the use of whiskey...
...number of these could be lessened if, as is not now the case, they could be brought up from childhood to the proper use of wine or ale. Once accustomed to drink in their homes and at the table, looking upon these drinks as a part of their dinner, they would early in life contract the habit of their regular and moderate use. In those districts of France where meat is a rarity, on feast days the tables overflow with it. Course after course of it is brought on, and the guests eat to satiety...
...Nothing in excess," is a saying highly approved at Cambridge; and in nothing is the tendency to put this saying in practice more desirable, and experience shows, more evident, than in the use of wine...
...cannot touch the wine," again...
...drink the sparkling wine with...