| 1788 - 742 σελίδες
...EVERY profefled, inveterate, and incurable f nuff-taker, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes. ./ Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the nofe, and other incidental clrcumftanc«s. confumes one minute and a half. One minute and a half out,... | |
| 1788 - 522 σελίδες
...profefled, inveterate, and incurafale (huft' taker, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in tea minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the nofc, and other incidental circumstances, confumes a minute and a half. One minute and a half out of... | |
| 1817 - 560 σελίδες
...inveterate and incurable snuff-taker, says lord Chesterfield, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony...blowing and wiping the nose, and other incidental circumstanecs, consumes a minute and a half out of every ten, which allowing 16 hours to a snuff-taking... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1815 - 602 σελίδες
...incurable snuff-taker, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes ; every pinch, witli the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the nose, and other incidental circumstances, consumes one minute and a half out of every ten , allowing sixteen hours to n snuff-taker's day, amounts to... | |
| 1825 - 538 σελίδες
...inveterate, and incurable snuft-t.-tktr, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten munîtes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of blowing...other incidental circumstances, consumes a minute «lid a half. One minute and a half out of every ten, allowing sixteen hours to a muff-taking day,... | |
| 1830 - 614 σελίδες
...of ice." SNUFF-TAKING. EVERT inveterate snuff-taker takes, at a moderate computation, one pinch in ten minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony...nose, and other incidental circumstances, consumes one minute and a half. One minute and a half out of every ten, allowing sixteen hours to a snuff-taking... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 σελίδες
...inveteritc. incurable snuff-taker,' »ays his Ix>rdship, • at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the noee, and other incidental circumstances, consumes a minute and a half One miiiuto and a half out of... | |
| 1836 - 98 σελίδες
...miserable snuff taker, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes. Every pinch, with the ceremony of blowing and wiping the nose, and other incidental circumstances, consumes one minute and a half. One minute ;>ml a half out of every ten, amounts to one day out of ten, and... | |
| 1844 - 1128 σελίδες
...inveterate and incurable snuff-taker," says Lord Stanhope, " at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the nose, &c., consumes a minute and a. half. One minute and a half out of every ten, allowing sixteen hours... | |
| 1846 - 408 σελίδες
...following singular calculation was made by Lady Hester Stanhope : Every professed inveterate snuff-taker, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch every ten...minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of wiping and blowing the nose, and other incidental circumstances, consumes a minute and a half. One... | |
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