Jacob, ever fold a black-lead " pencil, or a roll of hard pomatum, " or a pair of fleeve buttons in their " jives : then, pray, how could they The Adventures of a Bank-note ... - Page 165 by Thomas Bridges - 1771 Full view - About this book
...that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were Jews, for nowhere in the Bible does it say that they "ever sold a black-lead pencil, or a roll of hard pomatum, or a pair of sleeve buttons in their lives."53 It is to the most celebrated English artist of his day that we are...