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Ebrietatis Encomium, or The Praise of Drunkenness

by Albert-Henri de Sallengre

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Epigraph — The Preface
  3. 3Chap. I — That One Must Be Merry
  4. 4Chap. II — That Wine Drives Away Sorrow and Excites Mirth
  5. 5Chap. III — That It Is Good for One’s Health to Get Drunk Sometimes
  6. 6Chap. IV — That Old People Ought to Get Drunk Sometimes
  7. 7Chap. V — That Wine Creates Wit
  8. 8Chap. VI — That Wine Makes One Eloquent
  9. 9Chap. VII — That Wine Acquires Friends, and Reconciles Enemies
  10. 10Chap. VIII — That the Custom of Getting Drunk Is Most Ancient
  11. 11Chap. IX — That the Primitive Christians Got Drunk
  12. 12Chap. X — Of Churchmen
  13. 13Chap. XI — Of Popes, Saints, and Bishops, That Used to Get Drunk
  14. 14Chap. XII — A Catalogue of Some Illustrious Topers
  15. 15Chap. XIII — Of Philosophers That Used to Get Drunk
  16. 16Chap. XIV — Of Poets That Used to Get Drunk
  17. 17Chap. XV — Of Free Masons, and Other Learned Men, That Used to Get…
  18. 18Chap. XVI — Of Nations That Used to Get Drunk
  19. 19Chap. XVII — Of the Drunkenness of the Germans
  20. 20Chap. XVIII — Of Nations That Get Drunk With Certain Liquors
  21. 21Chap. XIX — Other Considerations in Favour of Drunkenness
  22. 22Chap. XX — An Answer to the Objection, That Drunkenness Causes Infi…
  23. 23Chap. XXI — An Answer to the Objection, That the Mirth Which Wine I…
  24. 24Chap. XXII — An Answer to the Objection, That One Loses One’s Reaso…
  25. 25Chap. XXIII — An Answer to the Objection, That One Cannot Trust a M…
  26. 26Chap. XXIV — An Answer to the Objection, That Drunkenness Makes One…
  27. 27Chap. XXV — Burlesque, Ridiculous, and Out-of-the-Way Thoughts, Aga…
  28. 28Chap. XXVI — A Ridiculous Aversion That Some Have to Wine
  29. 29Chap. XXVII — Rigorous Laws Against Wine and Drunkenness
  30. 30Chap. XXVIII — Rules to Be Observed in Getting Drunk. I. Not Too Of…
  31. 31Chap. XXIX — Third Rule, With Good Wine
  32. 32Chap. XXX — Fourth Rule, at Convenient Times
  33. 33Chap. XXXI — Fifth Rule, to Force No One to Drink
  34. 34Chap. XXXII — Sixth Rule, Not to Push Drunkenness Too Far
  35. 35An Ode to Bacchus
  36. 36Postscript
  37. 37Chanson a Boire
  38. 38The Tipling Philosophers

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