sack-pot

Updated: June 13, 2025

If the knowledge of the Scriptures has made me mad, the knowledge of the sack-pot hath almost made thee mad; and if we two madmen should dispute about religion, we should make mad work of it." "An 't please you, my Lord," said the scandalized priest, "he says I 'm drunk."

John Greenleaf Whittier - Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI.,: The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches

If the knowledge of the Scriptures has made me mad, the knowledge of the sack-pot hath almost made thee mad; and if we two madmen should dispute about religion, we should make mad work of it." "An 't please you, my Lord," said the scandalized priest, "he says I 'm drunk."

John Greenleaf Whittier - Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes: Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier