A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors: With the Present Practice of Distillation in All Its Varieties: Together with an Extensive Illustration of the Consumption and Effects of Opium, and Other Stimulants Used in the East, as Substitutes for Wine and SpiritsW. Curry, jun., and W. Carson, 1838 - 745 من الصفحات |
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... nature , when he says , " Soon as the force of that fallacious fruit That with exhilarating vapour bland About their spirits had played , and inmost powers Made err , was now exhaled . " The Rabbins , or Jewish doctors , were of the ...
... nature , when he says , " Soon as the force of that fallacious fruit That with exhilarating vapour bland About their spirits had played , and inmost powers Made err , was now exhaled . " The Rabbins , or Jewish doctors , were of the ...
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... nature , was the bowl of wine , called nepenthe , which , Homer tells us , Helen presented to the guests of Menelaus , when oppressed with grief , to raise their spirits and banish care . The composition of this , it is said , she had ...
... nature , was the bowl of wine , called nepenthe , which , Homer tells us , Helen presented to the guests of Menelaus , when oppressed with grief , to raise their spirits and banish care . The composition of this , it is said , she had ...
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... nature gives the feast ; The trees around them all their food produce , Lotos the name , divine , nectareous juice ! ( Thence called lotophagi ) which whoso tastes Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts , Nor other home , nor other care ...
... nature gives the feast ; The trees around them all their food produce , Lotos the name , divine , nectareous juice ! ( Thence called lotophagi ) which whoso tastes Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts , Nor other home , nor other care ...
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... natural history , has shewn himself so curious and so judicious a master in the compi- lation of facts and ... nature and properties of the liquor were every- where the same . The people of Spain , in particular , he informs us ...
... natural history , has shewn himself so curious and so judicious a master in the compi- lation of facts and ... nature and properties of the liquor were every- where the same . The people of Spain , in particular , he informs us ...
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... nature of the soil and the favorable situation of the vineyards . The wine Cœcuban manufactured from the grape of the poplar marshes of Amycle , was much sought after before the time of Augustus Cæsar ; but from the preference given to ...
... nature of the soil and the favorable situation of the vineyards . The wine Cœcuban manufactured from the grape of the poplar marshes of Amycle , was much sought after before the time of Augustus Cæsar ; but from the preference given to ...
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الصفحة 711 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; That continue until night, till wine inflame them ! And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, And wine, are in their feasts: But they regard not the work of the Lord, Neither consider the operation of his hands.
الصفحة 131 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas; and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
الصفحة 34 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
الصفحة 131 - I was buried, for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.
الصفحة 129 - If a person under its influence wishes to step over a straw or small stick, he takes a stride or a jump sufficient to clear the trunk of a tree ; a talkative person cannot keep silence or secrets ; and one fond of music is perpetually singing.
الصفحة 20 - Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below.
الصفحة 131 - Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan.
الصفحة 351 - I stand alone : the companions of my youth, the partakers of my sports, my toils, and my dangers, recline their heads on the bosom of our Mother. My sun is fast descending behind the western hills, and I feel that it will soon be night with me.
الصفحة 103 - I commenced with one grain ; in the course of an hour and a half it produced no perceptible effect ; the coffee-house keeper was very anxious to give me an additional pill of two grains, but I was contented with half a one, and in another...
الصفحة 8 - They went, and found a hospitable race; Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest, They eat, they drink, and Nature gives the feast; The trees around them, all their fruit produce; Lotos, the name; divine, nectareous juice!