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... sold to the adulterators at a few sous the bottle , is now frequently mingled with rough cyder , and coloured to resemble claret , with cochi- neal , turnsole , and similar matters . This is pronounced fine quality , and sold as such in ...
... sold to the adulterators at a few sous the bottle , is now frequently mingled with rough cyder , and coloured to resemble claret , with cochi- neal , turnsole , and similar matters . This is pronounced fine quality , and sold as such in ...
Page 39
... sold in the streets in stoups . Scott and others , describing the Scotch in old times , often allude to the ' stoup of claret , ' which was probably the usual way of buying and also of drinking it : but it could not have been a vin de ...
... sold in the streets in stoups . Scott and others , describing the Scotch in old times , often allude to the ' stoup of claret , ' which was probably the usual way of buying and also of drinking it : but it could not have been a vin de ...
Page 52
... sold at fifteen guineas per dozen - the price demanded . A wine merchant , not given to be carried away by names or years , mentioned to me that he had had an opportunity of tasting it , and that he would not give sixpence a bottle for ...
... sold at fifteen guineas per dozen - the price demanded . A wine merchant , not given to be carried away by names or years , mentioned to me that he had had an opportunity of tasting it , and that he would not give sixpence a bottle for ...
Page 58
... sold . Give every public - house or beer - shop in London an average frontage of twenty - one feet , and we shall find , if placed side by side , they would make a row of houses thirty - nine miles in length . To find the amount of ...
... sold . Give every public - house or beer - shop in London an average frontage of twenty - one feet , and we shall find , if placed side by side , they would make a row of houses thirty - nine miles in length . To find the amount of ...
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... sold in London for less money than in Paris , because the duty and the carriage together do not amount to so much as the octroi charged at the barriers of the latter city . But the London publicans have combined to resist the ...
... sold in London for less money than in Paris , because the duty and the carriage together do not amount to so much as the octroi charged at the barriers of the latter city . But the London publicans have combined to resist the ...
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