“The tavern will compare favorably with the church.” — Henry David Thorea
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- “For secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be.”
- The culture of the hop … so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer,… a lumberer’s drink
- But if at church they would give some ale And a pleasant fire our souls to regale.
- But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer…a lumberer’s drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once
- it seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of
- Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known
- “It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church. “
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, which, it was allowed, would be better; clear and thin, but strong and stringent as