Smoking: when Injurious, when Innocuous, when Beneficial, with a Compendium of the Temperaments, Shewing how They are Influenced by the Use of Tobacco

Framsida
J. Christie] Entered at Stationers' Hall, 1876 - 112 sidor
 

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Sida 76 - God, harming yourselves both in persons and goods, and raking also thereby the marks and notes of vanity upon you : by the custom thereof making yourselves to be wondered at by all foreign civil Nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned. A custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful to the Brain, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Sida 75 - And is it not a great vanity, that a man cannot heartily welcome his friend now, but straight they must be in hand with tobacco ? No, it is become in place of a cure, a point of good fellowship...
Sida 1 - Our senses, our appetites, and our passions, are our lawful and faithful guides, in most things that relate solely to this life ; and, therefore, by the hourly necessity of consulting them, we gradually sink into an implicit submission, and habitual confidence. Every act of compliance with their motions facilitates a second compliance, every new step towards depravity is made with less reluctance than the former, and thus the descent to life merely sensual is perpetually accelerated.
Sida 76 - Have you not reason then to be ashamed, and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof?
Sida 70 - First, it is thought by you a sure Aphorism in the Physics, That the brains of all men, being naturally cold and wet, all dry and hot things should be good for them ; of which nature this stinking suffumigation is, and therefore of good use to them. Of this Argument, both the Proposition and Assumption are false, and so the Conclusion cannot but be void of itself.
Sida 75 - But herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke...
Sida 73 - And so from hand to hand it spreades, till it be practised by all, not for any commoditie that is in it, but only because it is come to be the fashion.
Sida 71 - But first these cures ought not to be used, but where there is need of them, the contrary whereof, is daily practised in this general use of Tobacco by all sorts and complexions of people.
Sida 74 - O omnipotent power of Tobacco ! And if it could by the smoke thereof chase out devils, as the smoke of Tobias...

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