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Quotation from The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
“a liquor I the rather prefer, as it is nowhere spoken against in Scripture, and as it is more wholesome for the gravel, a distemper with which I am grievously afflicted”
The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 13
The prison chaplain, after preaching damnation to Wild, refuses wine and calls for punch; the medical excuse completes the satire on a careless ministry.
Citation: "a liquor I the rather prefer, as it is nowhere spoken against in Scripture, and as it is more wholesome for the gravel, a distemper with which I am grievously afflicted" — Henry Fielding, The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 13. (id fielding-jonathan-wild-q5)
