 ... stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief,...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 8081897Full view - About this book
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811
...commonly abused by most men (which take it as tinkers do ale), 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health — hellish, devilish, and...tobacco — the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." Of the domestic customs, with reference to animals, none more deserves commendation than the care and... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 442 pages
...commonly abused by most men (which take it as tinkers do ale), 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health — hellish, devilish, and...tobacco — the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." Of the domestic customs, with reference to animals, none more deserves commendation than the care and... | |
 | Thomas Oliphant - 1837 - 374 pages
...who take it as tinkers do ale ; 't is " a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, and " health ; hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco ; the ruin " and overthrow of body and soul ! " I have never seen more than these two sets of Este's Madrigals, and have reason to believe that... | |
 | Benjamin Ingersol Lane - 1846 - 200 pages
...commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health : hellish, devilish, and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." " Tobacco." says the compiler of a Cyclopedia, " contains an oil of a poisonous quality, which is used... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1847 - 700 pages
...commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. SUBSECT. II. — Simples purging Melancholy downward. POLYPODY and epithyme are, without all exceptions,... | |
 | 1898 - 714 pages
...which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a llague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, ealth, hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."—P. 441, pt. ii. sec. 4, mem. 2, subs. '2. JOHN T. CUERY. HEYSHAM ANTIQUITIES. THE late summer... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 pages
...commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. SUBSECT. II.— Simples purging Melancholy downward. POLYPODY and epithyme are, without all exceptions,... | |
 | 1857 - 520 pages
...commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health ; hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul !" Such a description of the extent to which tobacco was " commonly abused," in the early part of the... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1857 - 206 pages
...abused by most men, which take it as tinkers take all, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health — hellish, devilish, and...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."* The moral influence of tobacco is not a light matter. That principle within it which imparts electric... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1859 - 480 pages
...commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. SUBSECT. II. — Simples purging Melancholy downward. POLYPODY and epithyme are, without all exceptions,... | |
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