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¬r , which was frozen into a body afc bard as granite ; and a streamy line of dark crimson flowed slowly along the purely ^ hit © feurface , I did not call for assistance , and was stooping to raise him , when the door opened ., and my companion appeared . I had presence of mind sufficient to conceal nay perturbation , and merely said , the poor brother had fallen and hurt himself . ' * But it
was not much—a little brandy to wash it , and a brown papei plaster , would make all right again / was his remark , on wiping the wound with his handkerchief . Our hosts pressed their hospitalityonus for the night , but I seconded my companion ' s wish to proceed on our journey ; and giving to Fulgaz a look of assurance of my perfect silence , we bade adieu to the friendly priests ; and , in a few minutes , were again gliding rapidly along the ice . I
passed * * * a few weeks after , without stopping , and have never since revisited it . Whether Fulgaz be living or dead I know not , and have refrained from making inquiries of several of those who I know had been in the neighbourhood of * * * , lest I should drive attention and curiosity thitherwards .
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7991 On the Pleasure efgtlting Drunk
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ON THE PLEASURE OF GETTING DRUNK .
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BY A TVORKJNQ MAN . [ In Answer to Mr , Francis Place . ] What would be the use of drinking , if it made no difference in a man ? If liquor produced no change in us , it would be wasting
our hard-earned wages to purchase it , and wasting the liquor into the bargain . But we know from experience , which makes even fools wise ., that it does make a very great alteration in us , and causes us to view all surrounding circumstances with very different impressions . We will give a brief pictorial view of the noble state of excitement thus induced , with all its lord-like contempt
of consequences ; and we consider ourselves highly qualified to do this , naving got excessively queer on purpose to write this article . We care nothing about our wife ' s remonstrances , and the squalling of our nineteen hungry children ! Let them all squall on ! Can a man who is uplifted b y the lofty wings of drunkenness , stoop to consider any of these low > worldly things ?
Not he I Perhaps , however , we may not have quite so many as nineteen children : but individuals in our high condition are permitted to see double . This is Monday morning , and instead of going to work , we have been to the g in-shop . We are not sure , but we may h are been into half a dozen , or more ; but this we do know—we have had our dose . ' Shop / did we call it— -the Gin Palace !—the Temple of the Gods ! Carlton House is a ram-shackle compare * with it , —a mere asses' trtall . We went in a poor working && >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 798, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/52/
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