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    Aqua vitae (redirect from Spirits of wine)
    distilling wine and in English texts was also called ardent spirits, spirit of wine, or spirits of wine, a name that could be applied to brandy that had...
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  • Look up ardent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ardent may refer to: Ardent spirits, liquors obtained after repeated distillations from fermented vegetables...
    1,008 bytes (158 words) - 09:30, 14 May 2023
  • Ardent spirits (ethyl alcohol), in alchemy, are those liquors obtained after repeated distillations from fermented vegetables. They are thus called because...
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    Presbyterian preacher Charles Grandison Finney taught abstinence from ardent spirits. In the Rochester, New York revival of 1831, individuals were required...
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    than prohibition. In his treatise, "The Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind" (1784), Rush argued that the excessive...
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    (October 2006). "The Birth of the Cosmopolitan: A Tale of Two Bartenders". Ardent Spirits e-letter. Vol. 7, Issue 6. Archived from the original on 2007-07-07...
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  • trioxide, As2O3 (extremely poisonous) Aqua vitae/aqua vita/spirit of wine, ardent spirits – ethanol, formed by distilling wine Butter (or oil) of antimony – antimony...
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    all liquors of an intoxicating quality whether ale, porter, wine, or ardent spirits, except as medicine." Today, a number of temperance organisations exist...
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    Mix Drinks. Dick and Fitzgerald. p. 36. Retrieved 25 November 2008. "Ardent Spirits Bartender Bulletin". ardentspirits.com. Archived from the original on...
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    nine episodes during the 2010-2013 run of the series. John Kobler, Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (New York: Da Capo Press, 1973), p...
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  • States". United States Senate. Retrieved 2013-10-07. John Kobler (1973). Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Da Capo Press. p. 342....
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    Methodist founder John Wesley lived, "alcohol was divided between 'ardent spirits,' which included whisky, rum, gin, and brandy, and fermented drinks...
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    ": 101  Indian Agent Richard Cummins at Fort Leavenworth wrote: "it is ardent spirits that causes many of them to steal one from another, to kill one another...
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    Ethanol (redirect from Cologne spirits)
    Ethanol has historically been identified variously as spirit of wine or ardent spirits, and as aqua vitae or aqua vita. The intoxicating effects of its consumption...
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    sympathy for the people of Texas which now impels so many adventurous and ardent spirits to throng to the aid of their brethren." The Zacatecas militia, the...
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    2017. Rush, Benjamin (1819) [1791]. An inquiry into the effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind: with an account of the means of preventing...
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    outside. At Wallack's Theatre in New York a parody titled Hiawatha; or, Ardent Spirits and Laughing Water, by Charles Melton Walcot, premiered on 26 December...
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    sympathy for the people of Texas which now impels so many adventurous and ardent spirits to throng to the aid of their brethren". On the afternoon of April 21...
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  • recommend that the savouring of these books should be "no tossing off of ardent spirits, but the connoisseur's deliberate rolling in the mouth of some old vintage"...
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  • Alfred A. Knopf. p. 648. ISBN 0375413332. Price, Reynolds (12 May 2009). Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back. Scribner Book Company. p. 141. ISBN 978-0743291897...
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