Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 2,3): Nature (London, 1793)

BEER-STREET, AND GIN-LANE.

" The nature and use of aliments maketb men
either chaste or incontinent; either courageous
or cowardly; either meek or quarrelsome i let
" those who deny these truths come to me; let them
follow my counsel in eating and drinking, and I
promise them they will find great helps there-
upon towards moral philosophy. They will ac-
quire more prudence, more diligence, more me-
mory." ■ GALEN.

Fully impressed with the truth of this axiom,
Mr. Hogarth engraved the two following prints,
in which he has considered porter as the liquor
natural to an English constitution; and that vil-
lainous distillation, gin, both pernicious and poi-
sonous. While that noble beverage, properly
termed British Burgundy * refreshes the weary,

* The importance of this to the revenue, will appear by

The duty on malt from July ;, 1785, ro the same day,
1786, produced a million and a half of money, from a liquor
which invigorates the bodies of its willing subjects to defend