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 kingdoms ... / By John Dunlop.

  • Dunlop, John, 1789-1868.
Date:
1839
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Credit: 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 kingdoms ... / By John Dunlop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I. THE ARTIFICIAL AND COMPULSORY DRINKING USAGES OF SCOTLAND. Of Cabinet-makers and Joiners—Hatters—Ironfounders—Ship- wrights— Sail-makers—Coopers—Sawyers—Reflections on the Apprentice Entry — Usages of the Cotton Spinners — Calico Printers’ Usage-money commuted, and given to a Mechanics’ Library—Scheme of Girls to lodge Drink in Women’s Apart- ments. The felicity with which Sir Walter Scott occa- sionally touches the interesting topic of Scotch national manners, has excited a multitude of essayists and pseudo-philanthropists to venture a stake on such inviting play; and the public has been nauseated and overwhelmed by sketches of what is said to be Scottish life, without, in fact, having ever yet arrived at the foundation of those modes and institutions that may he stated philoso- phically to have formed the superior traits of the character of the North British; or at those un- happy sources of national deterioration which the Scotch possess in such ruinous abundance. It is to the consideration of some facts connected with