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writing. In order to combine the two 

 operations with perfect comfort to himself, 

 he would bore a hole through the broad 

 brim of his large hat, and putting the 

 stem of his long pipe through it, puff and 

 write, and write and puff, with learned 

 gravity. 



This singular device, however, did not 

 originate with the English divine, since 

 Heine concludes some ponderous joking 

 on those who have liked and those who 

 have disliked tobacco (among the latter 

 he himself being included), with the re- 

 mark that the great Boxhornius also Joved 

 tobacco, and that " in smoking he wore a 

 hat with a broad brim, in the fore part of 

 which he had a hole, through which the 

 pipe was stuck, that it might not hinder 

 his studies." 



This famous scholar and critic, who 

 died at Leyclen in 1653, was wont, with 

 the modesty of genuine erudition, to 

 say: 



"How many things there are that we 



