 Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's 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...  The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now ... - Страница 294по Sir Thomas Overbury - 1856 - 311 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Horace Greeley - 1872 - 1318 страници
...philosophers' 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, a violent... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1875 - 498 страници
...philosopher's Btones, 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, a violent... | |
 | 1872 - 586 страници
...philosopher's stones; a sovereign remedy for 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 used by most men, who take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purge... | |
 | 1875 - 520 страници
...philosophers' 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, a violent... | |
 | I. C. Wellcome - 1875 - 96 страници
...in his work entitled "The Anatomy of Melancholy," says of tobacco, "A good vomit, a virtuous hero, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used; but as iti-s commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 360 страници
...philosopher's 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 take ale), 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1880 - 488 страници
...philosopher's 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, a violent... | |
 | 1885 - 184 страници
...Jonson. TOBACCO. The Metamorphosis of Tobacco, 4to. 1602 " 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, a violent... | |
 | 1885 - 164 страници
...Jonson. TOBACCO. The Metamorphosis of Tobacco, 4to. 1602 " 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, a violent... | |
 | Margaret Oliver Woods Lawrence - 1885 - 298 страници
...who, in his Anatomy of Melancholy, discriminatingly says of tobacco, " A good vomit, 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, a violent... | |
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