1892 Drinks of the world

THE DRINKS OF ANTIQUITY.

: Method of Wine-Making — Ladies and Wine — Beer, etc. Assyria : — Early Wines

— Names of Wines List of Assur-ba-ni-

Egypt

— Method of Drinking

— Different Sorts of Wine. — Their Appreciation of Wine Mention of Wines in the Old

pal's Wines

HiTTiTE : Two Ladies Drinking — The Hittite Bacchus. Judea :

— Wine as an Article of Commerce

— Mixed Wines

Testament

Wine Vessels. HAS ^^y "i3.n been bold enough to attempt to fix upon the discoverer of Wine ? Not to our knowledofe. Nor can a date be even hazarded as to its introduction. It was so good a thing, that we may be sure that men very soon came to know its revivifying that the oldest records of which we have any cognisance, those of the Egyp- tians (who were in a high state of civilization and culture when the Hebrews were semi-barbarous nomads), show us that they had wine, and used it in a most refined manner, as we see by the headpiece to this chapter. Here a father is nursing his child, who effects. We do know this :

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