Encomium Ebrietatis

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Author

Sallengre, Albert-Henri de, 1694-1723

Title

Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness

Credits

Produced by Louise Hope, Curtis Weyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Posner Memorial Collection ( posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/))

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Drinking customs -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

eBook-No.

29188

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29188

Release Date

June 21, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.EBRIETATIS ENCOMIUM:
2. 2.PRAISE — DRUNKENNESS: — THE NECESSITY — FREQUENTLY GETTING DRUNK; — BONIFACE OINOPHILUS, — LONDON: — 1812. — EBRIETATIS ENCOMIUM: — PRAISE OF DRUNKENNESS — THE PREFACE. — CONTENTS.
3. 3.PRAISE — DRUNKENNESS — CHAP. I. THAT ONE MUST BE MERRY. — CHAP. II. THAT WINE DRIVES AWAY SORROW AND EXCITES MIRTH. — CHAP. III. THAT IT IS GOOD FOR ONE’S HEALTH TO GET DRUNK SOMETIMES. — CHAP. IV. THAT OLD PEOPLE OUGHT TO GET DRUNK SOMETIMES. — CHAP. V. THAT WINE CREATES WIT. — CHAP. VI. THAT WINE MAKES ONE ELOQUENT. — CHAP. VII. THAT WINE ACQUIRES FRIENDS, AND RECONCILES ENEMIES. — CHAP. VIII. THAT THE CUSTOM OF GETTING DRUNK IS MOST ANCIENT. — CHAP. IX. THAT THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS GOT DRUNK. — CHAP. X. OF CHURCHMEN. — CHAP. XI. OF POPES, SAINTS, AND BISHOPS, THAT USED TO GET DRUNK. — CHAP. XII. A CATALOGUE OF SOME ILLUSTRIOUS TOPERS. — CHAP. XIII. OF PHILOSOPHERS THAT USED TO GET DRUNK. — CHAP. XIV. OF POETS THAT USED TO GET DRUNK. — CHAP. XV. OF FREE MASONS, AND OTHER LEARNED MEN, THAT USED TO GET DRUNK. — CHAP. XVI. OF NATIONS THAT USED TO GET DRUNK. — CHAP. XVII. OF THE DRUNKENNESS OF THE GERMANS. — CHAP. XVIII. OF NATIONS THAT GET DRUNK WITH CERTAIN LIQUORS. — CHAP. XIX. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS IN FAVOUR OF DRUNKENNESS. — I. That drunkards are not generally given to lewdness. — II. That in those countries where they do not drink to excess, they are very much addicted to debauchery. — CHAP. XX. AN ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION, THAT DRUNKENNESS CAUSES INFINITE EVILS. — CHAP. XXI. AN ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION, THAT THE MIRTH WHICH WINE INSPIRES IS CHIMERICAL. — CHAP. XXII. AN ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION, THAT ONE LOSES ONE’S REASON IN GETTING DRUNK. — CHAP. XXIII. AN ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION, THAT ONE CANNOT TRUST A MAN THAT GETS DRUNK. — CHAP. XXIV. AN ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION, THAT DRUNKENNESS MAKES ONE INCAPABLE OF PERFORMING THE DUTIES OF CIVIL LIFE. — CHAP. XXV. BURLESQUE, RIDICULOUS, AND OUT-OF-THE-WAY THOUGHTS, AGAINST DRUNKENNESS. — CHAP. XXVI. A RIDICULOUS AVERSION THAT SOME HAVE TO WINE. — CHAP. XXVII. RIGOROUS LAWS AGAINST WINE AND DRUNKENNESS. — CHAP. XXVIII. RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN GETTING DRUNK. I. NOT TOO OFTEN. II. IN GOOD COMPANY. — CHAP. XXIX. THIRD RULE, WITH GOOD WINE. — CHAP. XXX. FOURTH RULE, AT CONVENIENT TIMES. — CHAP. XXXI. FIFTH RULE, TO FORCE NO ONE TO DRINK. — CHAP. XXXII. SIXTH RULE, NOT TO PUSH DRUNKENNESS TOO FAR. — AN ODE TO BACCHUS. — POSTSCRIPT. — CHANSON A BOIRE. — THE TIPLING PHILOSOPHERS. — Lately published by C. Chapple , Pall Mall . — Transcriber’s Notes

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