The Philosophy of Artificial and Compulsory Drinking Usage in Great Britain and Ireland

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Excerpt from The Philosophy of Artificial and Compulsory Drinking Usage in Great Britain and Ireland: Containing the Characteristic, and Exclusively National, Convivial Laws of British Society, With the Peculiar Compulsory Festal Customs of Ninety-Eight Trades and Occupations in the Three KingdomsThere has been constituted with us a conven tional and artificial connexion between liquor and courtesy and business, and this unnatural con junction is not, as in some other places, occasional, but nearly universal, and I hope to show that it has become a perfect science to know its multiplied modifications in every department of civil and of domestic life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.