 ... fire to puffing out innocuous blasts of dry smoke, was so like cheating him. But he is too hard for us when we hope to commute. He beats us at barter; and when we think to set off a new failing against an old infirmity, 'tis odds but he puts the trick...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 821823Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...against an old infirmity, 'tis odds but he puts the trick upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobacco brought with him in the end...carry the reader through all the processes by which, irom smoking at first with malt liquor, I took my degrees through thin wines, through stronger wine... | |
 | Hygiene - 1830 - 410 pages
...against an old infirmity, 'tis odds but he puts the trick upon us, of two for one. That, (comparatively,) white devil of tobacco brought with him in the end seven worse than himself. " I should repel my readers, from a mere incapacity of believing me, were I to tell them what tobacco... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...against an old infirmity, 'tis odds but he puts the trick upon ui of two for one. That, (comparatively,) white devil of tobacco brought with him in the end...thin wines, through stronger wine and water, through •mall punch, to those juggling compositions, which, under the name of mixed liquors, slur a great... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...smoke, was so like cheating him. But he puts the trick upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobacco brought with him, in the end,...first with malt liquor, I took my degrees through their wines, through stronger wine and water, through small punch, to those juggling compositions,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...'tis odds but he puts the trick upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobaeco brought with him in the end seven worse than himself....from smoking at first with malt liquor, I took my degrcos through thin wines, through stronger wine and water, through small puneh, to those juggling... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...against an old infirmity, 'tis odds but he puts the trick upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobacco brought with him in the end...by which, from smoking at first with malt liquor, \ took my degrees through thin wines, through stronger wine and water, through small punch, to those... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...against an old infirmity, 'tis odds but he puts the trick upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobacco brought with him in the end seven worse than himself. ' ' I have seen a print after Correggio, in which three female figures are ministering to a man who... | |
 | Health - 1858 - 374 pages
...against an old infirmity 'tis odds but he puts the trick upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobacco brought with him in the end...first with malt liquor, I took my degrees through their wines, through stronger wine and water, through small punch, to those juggling compositions which,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...puts the tries upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobacco brought with him _n the end seven worse than himself. It were impertinent to carry the readier through all the processes by which, from smoking at first with malt liquor, I took toy degrees... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1876 - 740 pages
...against an old infirmity, 'tis odds but he puts the trick upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobacco brought with him in the end...impertinent to carry the reader through all the processes by whicli, from smoking at first with malt liquor, I took my degrees through thin wines, through stronger... | |
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