 ... 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
 | 1919 - 320 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.' 2. 2. 138 Nor Raymund Lullies great elixir. Raimond Lull, known as 'Doctor Illuminatissimus,' was born... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1919 - 312 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 Bock was standing on his hind legs, looking up at the front wall of the cellar, in which two small... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1919 - 316 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.' 2. 2. 138 Nor Raymund Lullies great elixir. Raimond Lull, known as 'Doctor Illuminatissimus,' was born... | |
 | John Earle - 1920 - 218 pages
...vomit, a virtuous herb,' but when taken '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." (Anatomy of Melancholy, Part 11. § 4, Mem. 2, Subs, i, Vol. II. p. 264.) 7. Spaine is commended: see... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1920 - 290 pages
...in opposition. Burton of the Anatomy described tobacco as " a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." Dekker called it a " beggarly Monarche of Indians, and setter-up of rotten lung'd chimney-sweepers... | |
 | 1921 - 726 pages
...extravagances of invective, condemned tobacco taken for pleasure as "a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul," strange to say, believed in the medical properties of the "weed." During the years 1887-88 Mr. James... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea - 1923 - 300 pages
...Burton ("A plague, a mischief, a violent 1 "Over the Teacups," p. 184. 1 April, 1909, p. 122. purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul"). King Charles I. George Fox. William Penn. Jonathan Swift (occasionally used snuff). Samuel Johnson.... | |
 | Nicolaas Zwager - 1926 - 276 pages
...skies, 2) condemns the abuse in equally extravagant terms: '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. ') Barnaby Rich, who had already vented his spleen on the poor weed in the Irish Hubbub, ') returns... | |
 | 1860 - 836 pages
...it as tiukers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lauds, health : belliah, devilish, and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul ! " — HUSTON. Anatomy of Melanefioly. A DELICATE subject ? Very true ¡ and one which must be handled... | |
 | Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Hugh Trevor-Roper - 1989 - 320 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'. What did Burton read in his solitary study? As far as we can see, everything, anything: ancient classics,... | |
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