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" ... 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,... "
Kansas Medical Journal: Topeka - Page 337
1890
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1

James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 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...tobacco — the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." Of the domestic customs, with reference to animals, none more deserves commendation than the care and...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1

James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 442 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...tobacco — the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." Of the domestic customs, with reference to animals, none more deserves commendation than the care and...
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La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays ...

Thomas Oliphant - Ballads, English - 1837 - 374 pages
...who take it as tinkers do ale ; 't is " a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, and " health ; hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco ; the ruin " and overthrow of body and soul ! " I have never seen more than these two sets of Este's Madrigals, and have reason to believe that...
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The Mysteries of Tobacco

Benjamin Ingersol Lane - Nicotine addiction - 1846 - 200 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." " Tobacco." says the compiler of a Cyclopedia, " contains an oil of a poisonous quality, which is used...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms ...

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1847 - 702 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. SUBSECT. II. — Simples purging Melancholy downward. POLYPODY and epithyme are, without all exceptions,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1898 - 712 pages
...which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a llague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, ealth, hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."—P. 441, pt. ii. sec. 4, mem. 2, subs. '2. JOHN T. CUERY. HEYSHAM ANTIQUITIES. THE late summer...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms ...

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1850 - 728 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. SUBSECT. II.— Simples purging Melancholy downward. POLYPODY and epithyme are, without all exceptions,...
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Tobacco: Its History, Cultivation, Manufacture, and Adulterations: Its Use ...

Andrew Steinmetz - Tobacco - 1857 - 206 pages
...abused by most men, which take it as tinkers take all, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health — hellish, devilish, and...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."* The moral influence of tobacco is not a light matter. That principle within it which imparts electric...
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The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2

Art - 1857 - 520 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 !" Such a description of the extent to which tobacco was " commonly abused," in the early part of the...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 2

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1859 - 480 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. SUBSECT. II. — Simples purging Melancholy downward. POLYPODY and epithyme are, without all exceptions,...
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