 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...courtesies I received. I rejoice, ns a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature. It is an error to view...their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...courtesies I received. I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties ou wine, by our national legislature. It is an error to view...houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1830 - 550 pages
...courtesies I received. I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature. It is an error to view...on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich. It is a prohibtion of its use to the middling class of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...same work he says : " I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine by our national legislature. It is an error to view...citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whisky, which is desolating thenhouses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober where... | |
 | Thomas McMullen - Alcoholic beverages - 1852 - 354 pages
...his Memoirs, says : " I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine by our national legislature. It is an error to view...rich. It is a prohibition of its use. to the middling classes of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of spirits, which is desolating their... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...courtesies I received. I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature. It is an error to view...their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...courtesies I received. I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature. It is an error to view...their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 758 pages
...M. de Neuville : " I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our National Legislature. It is an error to view...citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whisky, which is desolating their houses. No nation ¡3 drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1858 - 766 pages
...M. de Neuville : " I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our National Legislature. It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tar on the rich. It is a prohibition of its use to the middling class of our citizens, and a condemnation... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...a letter to M. de Neuce, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by il Legislature. It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax It ¡sa prohibition of its use to the middling class of our citizens, in nation of them to the poison... | |
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I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature. It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich. It is a prohibition of its use to the middling class of our citizens,... 
