A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors: With the Present Practice of Distillation in All Its Varieties: Together with an Extensive Illustration of the Consumption and Effects of Opium, and Other Stimulants Used in the East, as Substitutes for Wine and Spirits |
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... extracting spirit by evapo- ration . Had that discovery been known , it is likely they would have noticed it , as well as the other arts of which they have given us an account . Indeed , the free use of wine , which was then generally ...
... extracting spirit by evapo- ration . Had that discovery been known , it is likely they would have noticed it , as well as the other arts of which they have given us an account . Indeed , the free use of wine , which was then generally ...
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... extracting any of the essential oils by steam or vapours . Hippocrates , justly called the father of physic , who flourished between the 80th and 88th Olympiad , or about 400 years before Christ , is the oldest author , whose writings ...
... extracting any of the essential oils by steam or vapours . Hippocrates , justly called the father of physic , who flourished between the 80th and 88th Olympiad , or about 400 years before Christ , is the oldest author , whose writings ...
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... extracting of the juices of vegetable matter , if we except his account of the manner in which oil was obtained from ... extracted from them by expression . " . This was evi- dently distillation in its infancy , clearly proving that it ...
... extracting of the juices of vegetable matter , if we except his account of the manner in which oil was obtained from ... extracted from them by expression . " . This was evi- dently distillation in its infancy , clearly proving that it ...
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... extracted ; and from this clay the ancient vases , so much celebrated , are supposed to have been manufactured . These vases were tastefully formed , exceed- ingly light , and varnished with scented bitumen , receiving a polish like our ...
... extracted ; and from this clay the ancient vases , so much celebrated , are supposed to have been manufactured . These vases were tastefully formed , exceed- ingly light , and varnished with scented bitumen , receiving a polish like our ...
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... extraction of tar as effected by a similar process ; and it is strange , that the same mode of obtaining it is still followed by the people of the northern provinces of Sweden . During the reign of Dioclesian , who succeded Marcus ...
... extraction of tar as effected by a similar process ; and it is strange , that the same mode of obtaining it is still followed by the people of the northern provinces of Sweden . During the reign of Dioclesian , who succeded Marcus ...
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Page 711 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; That continue until night, till wine inflame them ! And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, And wine, are in their feasts: But they regard not the work of the Lord, Neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 131 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas; and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Page 34 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Page 131 - I was buried, for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.
Page 129 - If a person under its influence wishes to step over a straw or small stick, he takes a stride or a jump sufficient to clear the trunk of a tree ; a talkative person cannot keep silence or secrets ; and one fond of music is perpetually singing.
Page 20 - Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below.
Page 131 - Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan.
Page 351 - I stand alone : the companions of my youth, the partakers of my sports, my toils, and my dangers, recline their heads on the bosom of our Mother. My sun is fast descending behind the western hills, and I feel that it will soon be night with me.
Page 103 - I commenced with one grain ; in the course of an hour and a half it produced no perceptible effect ; the coffee-house keeper was very anxious to give me an additional pill of two grains, but I was contented with half a one, and in another...
Page 8 - They went, and found a hospitable race; Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest, They eat, they drink, and Nature gives the feast; The trees around them, all their fruit produce; Lotos, the name; divine, nectareous juice!