Ardent spirit seems to consist of a peculiar combination of phlogiston and water; for when the vapour of it is made to pass through a red-hot earthen tube, it is resolved into water and inflammable air.
Of liquid inflammable substances the principal is spirit of wine, sometimes called ardent spirit, and, when highly rectified, alcohol.
By repeated distillation it is supposed that all oils may be brought almost to the state of aether, and even of ardent spirit.
Besides an ardent spirit, wine affords a great deal of water, oil, earth, and a sort of acid which shall be considered presently.
These properties it has in common with an ardent spirit.
If wine, which has gone through this second stage of fermentation, be distilled, instead of an ardent spirit, only an acid liquor is obtained, which is called Distilled Vinegar.
When a decoction of rice is fermented and distilled, it affords the sort of ardent spirit called arrack in the East Indies.
Hence the Methodists interdicted the common use of tobacco with that of ardent spirit, in the infancy of their society; thereby evincing a just sense of the self-denial, decency, and universal civility required by the gospel.
I have known others to be literally steeped in ardent spirit, who were seldom sick; and yet few, I apprehend, will affirm, that alcohol used to such excess is not injurious.
In one hundred cases where the cholera proved fatal, ninety of them had been in the liberal use of ardent spirit.
But however the matter may appear regarding the power of ardent spirit to nourish, no doubt can be entertained of the fact, that it certainly is not a necessary food.
It has been fully ascertained that not less than one thousand persons die from the direct influence of ardent spirit, in the British isles, every year.
But oxen and sheep fatten, and grow strong, and are maintained in health without ever touching so much as a single drop of ardent spirit.
The fermented juice of Turnips will yield an ardent spirit.
When fermented for the purpose it yields an ardent spirit.
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