 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1774 - 668 pages
...as the finoke in thofe days was fuppofed to be a fufEcient hardening for the timber of the houfe; fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the goodman and his family from the quack or pofe, wherewith very few were then acquainted." Not many years above fifty, French wine, in the Edinburgh... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1775 - 400 pages
...the fmoke in thofe days were fuppofed to be a fufficient hardening for the timber of the houfe ; fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the goodman and his family from the quacke or pofe, wherewith, as then, very few VOL. IV. " C c were were acquainted. Again, in chap, xviii.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1778 - 484 pages
...fmoke " in thole days was fuppofed to be a fuf" ficient hardening for the timber of the " houfe ; fo it was reputed a far better " medicine to keep the goodman and his :* family from the quack or pofe, where-' VOL II, R ~ " with ** with very few were then acquainted." Not many more than fifty years... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 488 pages
...fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good- man and his family from the quack or pofe, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted. Again in chap, xviii. Our pewterers in time paft employed the ufe of pewter only upon dimes and pots, and a few other trifles for fervice ; whereas... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 422 pages
...the fmoke in thofe days were fuppofed to be a fufficient hardening for the timber of the houfe ; fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the goodman and his family from the quacks or pofe ; wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted. Again, our pewterers in time palt employed... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...some part of a chimney, and somctimcj as a substitute for " and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke " in those days was supposed to be a sufficient...it was " reputed a far better medicine to keep the good " man and his family from the quacke (ague?) or " pose ; wherewith, as then, very few were oft... | |
 | Thomas Beddoes - Diseases - 1802 - 502 pages
...none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoake in those days was supposed tobe a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house,...so it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quacke or pose, wherewith, as then, very few wert oft acquainted.... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...heads did never ache. For ' as the smoke in those days was ' supposed to be a sufficient Irard' ening for the timber of the house, ' so it was reputed a far better ' medicine to keep the good man ' and his family from the quack-e f (ague) or pose; wherewith, as then, ' very few were oft... | |
 | 1802 - 886 pages
...heads did never ache. For ' as the smoke in those days was ' supposed to be a sufficient hard' enmg for the timber of the house, ' so it was reputed a far butter ' medicine to keep the good man ' and his family from tho quacke ' (ague) or pose; wherewith,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficent hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed...medicine to keep the good-man and his family from the (mack or pose, wherewith, as then, very few were acquamted. — Again, in chap, xviii. Our pewrterers... | |
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Now have we many chimnies; and yet out tender**** complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house,... 
