Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and Its Manufacture; with Its Modes of Use in All Ages and CountriesChatto and Windus, 1876 - 332 páginas |
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... introduce smoking to Venice ! Admiral Smyth remarks on this passage : " Surely the royal author of the famous Counterblast must have seen this graphic and early description of a cigar ! " + The Indians were so constant in their ...
... introduce smoking to Venice ! Admiral Smyth remarks on this passage : " Surely the royal author of the famous Counterblast must have seen this graphic and early description of a cigar ! " + The Indians were so constant in their ...
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... introduction of Tobacco to Europe , and a Spanish physician , Francesco Hernandez , is believed to have brought some plants to Spain for the inspection of his " Most Catholic " Majesty Philip the Second , who had commissioned him to ...
... introduction of Tobacco to Europe , and a Spanish physician , Francesco Hernandez , is believed to have brought some plants to Spain for the inspection of his " Most Catholic " Majesty Philip the Second , who had commissioned him to ...
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... introduction to Europe was due . Queens and Cardinals bowed to the dictum of physi- cians , who seemed to look upon the plant as a divine remedy for most diseases , and so speedily propounded cures for all that " flesh is heir to " from ...
... introduction to Europe was due . Queens and Cardinals bowed to the dictum of physi- cians , who seemed to look upon the plant as a divine remedy for most diseases , and so speedily propounded cures for all that " flesh is heir to " from ...
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... introduction of the plant to England . Next , William Lilly , the Euphuist and court - poet to Elizabeth , in his play The Woman in the Moone , 1597 , makes Pandora after wounding a lover with a spear , send her servant for herbs to ...
... introduction of the plant to England . Next , William Lilly , the Euphuist and court - poet to Elizabeth , in his play The Woman in the Moone , 1597 , makes Pandora after wounding a lover with a spear , send her servant for herbs to ...
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... introduction the satirists began to complain of the prevalence of this habit ; but it was too firmly fixed then for their invectives to have any effect ; and to take tobacco " with a grace " was looked upon as the necessary ...
... introduction the satirists began to complain of the prevalence of this habit ; but it was too firmly fixed then for their invectives to have any effect ; and to take tobacco " with a grace " was looked upon as the necessary ...
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Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and ... Frederick William Fairholt Visualização integral - 1859 |
Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and ... Frederick William Fairholt Visualização integral - 1876 |
Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and ... Frederick William Fairholt Visualização integral - 1859 |
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