WHEN IS A MAN DRUNKD?
1 When can a man be safely said to be drunk ? That has long been a disputed question ? An English Judge has contributed his quota of information on the subject, in charging a jury. He had once read, he said, as proof of the drunkenness of a person, the following verse : Not drunk is ho who from the floor Can rise again and drink some more j But drunk is he who prostrate lies, And who can neither drink nor rise. On one occasion he (the Judge) inquired of a person the difference between one intoxicated and drunk, and he replied : " A man is intoxicated when he knows what he does and does not care, and he is drunk when he neither knows nor cares what he does."
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2994, 19 September 1878, Page 3
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133WHEN IS A MAN DRUNKD? Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2994, 19 September 1878, Page 3
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