 | 1776 - 646 Seiten
...taken ; and f Plato, ivho ftridly reftrains the ufe of it, and feverely cenfu res the excefs, fays, that nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by God to mankind. The author proceeds then to give a concife hiftory of the лпcient wines, deduced from Diofcorides,... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1821 - 428 Seiten
...for supper. Blato, who strictly restrains the use of wine, and severely censures the excess, says, that " nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by God to man:" the greatest philosophers, legislators, and physicians, give it due praise, when temperately taken.... | |
 | 1831 - 796 Seiten
...bedecked with clusters of fruit, is still selected as an emblem of hilarity and gladness. Even the crown of Juno was also made of the vine. Plato, one...that nothing more excellent or valuable than wine wag ever granted by God to man. To show still further that the ancients were well aware of its abuse... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1831 - 408 Seiten
...appetites for supper. Plato, who strictly restrains the use of wine, and severely censures the excess, says that "nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by God to man." Amphitryon is said by the Athenians to have been the first who diluted wine with water ; and on this... | |
 | 1831 - 420 Seiten
...bedecked with clusters of fruit, is still selected as an emblem of hilarity and gladness. Even the crown of Juno was also made of the vine. Plato, one...valuable than wine was ever granted by God to man. To show still further that the ancients were well aware of its abuse as well as of its worth, although... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - 1839 - 528 Seiten
...wine : but these restrictions were removed when wine became more plentiful. It was a saying of Plato, that " nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by God to man." One of Martial's Epigrams refers most plainly to a grape-house ; but it does not seem to have been... | |
 | Robert Buist - 1847 - 226 Seiten
...forbidden to drink wine. How would these regulations suit the moderns 1 Plato loved wine : he says, " Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by God to man." Ignatius Marennius killed his wife with a billet of wood, having caught her drinking wine. He was tried,... | |
 | Robert Buist - 1847 - 238 Seiten
...forbidden to drink wine. How would these regulations suit the moderns ? Plato loved wine : he says, " Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by God to man." Ignatius Marennius killed his wife with a billet of wood, having caught her drinking wine. He was tried,... | |
 | Robert Buist - 1861 - 222 Seiten
...forbidden to drink wine. How would these regulations suit the moderns ? Plato loved wine : he says, " Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by God to man." Ignatius Marennius killed his wife with a billet of wood, having caught her drinking wine. He was tried,... | |
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... taught its use and value to man. He is represented by Pliny to have been the first who ever wore a crown ; and as the god of vintage and of wine, his crown is formed of the vine ; and its twining branches, bedecked with clusters of fruit, is still... 