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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... shillings per pound , and an inferior kind ten shillings . A single bill for this article amounted to £ 367s . 8d . " By multiplying this by four , we shall be able to judge of the price , as compared with that of our own day , and so ...
... shillings per pound , and an inferior kind ten shillings . A single bill for this article amounted to £ 367s . 8d . " By multiplying this by four , we shall be able to judge of the price , as compared with that of our own day , and so ...
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... shillings a day , one day with another , throughout the whole year ; or , if one doth take lesse , two other may take more : but let us make our account , but after two shillings sixpence a day , for he that taketh less than that would ...
... shillings a day , one day with another , throughout the whole year ; or , if one doth take lesse , two other may take more : but let us make our account , but after two shillings sixpence a day , for he that taketh less than that would ...
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... shillings and ten pence . The animus which affected his weak mind bursts forth in the preamble of his Act , against what he is pleased to term an " evil vanitie ; " by which , he adds , " the health of a great number of people is ...
... shillings and ten pence . The animus which affected his weak mind bursts forth in the preamble of his Act , against what he is pleased to term an " evil vanitie ; " by which , he adds , " the health of a great number of people is ...
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... shillings : " he frequently puts down other sums for the same luxury , and in one of his letters to his son in London mentions his disappoint- ment at not getting tobacco with other things ordered to come from the Capital . In the ...
... shillings : " he frequently puts down other sums for the same luxury , and in one of his letters to his son in London mentions his disappoint- ment at not getting tobacco with other things ordered to come from the Capital . In the ...
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... shilling . " The expense of the custom was one fertile source of objection to the " fragrant weed . " We have heard the satirists declare it ruined the smaller gentry , and grave elders occasionally " put out the pipes " of fast young ...
... shilling . " The expense of the custom was one fertile source of objection to the " fragrant weed . " We have heard the satirists declare it ruined the smaller gentry , and grave elders occasionally " put out the pipes " of fast young ...
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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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