 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,...  The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales - Side 430redigeret af - 1887Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1775 - 280 sider
...the fmoke in thofe days was fuppofed to be a fufficient hardening for the timber of the houfe ; fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man 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 - 1789 - 488 sider
...as the fmoke in thofe days was fupgofed to be a fufficient hardening for the timber of the houfe, 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... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - 438 sider
...the fmoke in thofe days was fuppofed to be a fufficient hardening for the timber of the houfe ; fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quake or pofe , wherewith , as then , very few were acquainted. Again, in chap, xviii. Our pewterers... | |
 | 482 sider
...as the fmoke in thofe days was fuppofed to be a fufficient hardening for the timber of the houfe, fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quacks or pofe ; wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted. Again, our pewterers in time pall employed... | |
 | 1802 - 700 sider
...' fmoke in thofe days was fuppofed to ' be a fuflicient hardening for the timber ' of the houfe, fo it was reputed a far ' better medicine to keep the good man ' and his family from the quacke ' (ague), orpafe; wherewith, as then, ' very few were oft acquainted.' (Defcription of England,... | |
 | 1799 - 394 sider
...as the fmoke in thofe days was fuppofed to be a fufficient hardening for the timber of the houfe, fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quacks, or pofe, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted. Again, our pewterers, in time part,... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 444 sider
...'764) says1 lllat tnev were first introduced into England AD 1180. " and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke " in those days was supposed to be a...medicine to keep the good " man and his family from the quacke (ague?) or " pose ; wherewith, as then, very few were oft ac" quainted." (Description of England,... | |
 | John Baillie - 1801 - 642 sider
...as the fmoke in thole days was fuppofed to be a fufficieot hardning tor the timber of the houfe, fo it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quacke or pofe, wherewith as then very few were acquainted." Our Our hiftorian proceeds : " There are... | |
 | Thomas Beddoes - 1802 - 502 sider
...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,...medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quacke or pose, wherewith, as then, very few wert oft acquainted. Harrison's Description of England.... | |
 | 1802 - 888 sider
...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...medicine to keep the good man ' and his family from the quack-e f (ague) or pose; wherewith, as then, ' very few were oft acquainted.' Description of England,... | |
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