... 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
| 1860 - 794 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! "—Винтом. Anatomy of able, in language more forcible than elegant. The philippic of King Jaoies... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1898 - 632 pages
...are those who, with the author of the ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' convict the " genus nicotiana " as " hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." Between the paeans of the poets and the philippic of Burton, we have the calmer commercial deduction.... | |
| 1861 - 774 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.' We now proceed to lay before our readers the evidence for and against the custom of smoking tobacco,... | |
| Bombay (Presidency). Government Central Museum, Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood - 1862 - 396 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." See " Opium and Hemp." At the Cape of Good Hope the Hottentots smoke the leaves of Tarchonanthus camphoratus,... | |
| Bombay (Presidency). Government Central Museum, Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood - 1862 - 386 pages
...abused by most men which take it as 211 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." See " Opium and Hemp." At the Cape of Good Hope the Hottentots smoke the leaves of Tarchonanthus camphoratus,... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...commonly abused by most men, which take it us tinkers do ale, 'tis a plugne, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. BURTON. „. Anat. of Melancholy, Part II. Sect. IV. Memb. 2. Subs. 1. Pernicious weed I whose scent... | |
| 1864 - 790 pages
...commonly used by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent pnrger of goods, lands, health ; hellish, devilish, and damned...tobacco; the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." (See also SNUFF and TOBACCO.) CIGNANI, CABLO, a painter of the Bolognese school, born in Bologna in... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1872 - 1314 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." (Burton's Anat., p. 444) But all condemnation of the weed appeared only to bring it into higher favor... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1872 - 1318 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." (Burton's Anat., p. 4tt) But all condemnation of the weed appeared only to bring it into higher favor... | |
| Robert Burton - 1875 - 498 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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