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a pipe of tobacco among his fellows (though by his own 

 election he would rather feel the savour of a sinke), is 

 accounted peevish and no good company, even as they 

 do with tippling in the cold eastern countries. Yea, th« 

 mistress cannot in a more mannerly kind entertain her 

 servant, than by giving her, out of her fair hand, a pipe 

 of tobacco." 



" Moreover, which is a great iniquity and against all 

 humanity, the husband shall not be ashamed to reduce 

 thereby his delicate, wholesome, and clean-complexioned 

 wife to that extremity, that either she must also corrupt 

 her sweet breath therewith, or else resolve to live in a 

 perpetual stinking torment." 



He concludes thus in reference to smoking : '^ 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." "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." 



Vide " Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince 

 James, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain," 

 &c., 1616. 



77. The following extract is from an able article on 

 the United States, which appeared in the London Spec- 

 tator of July 5th, 1856 : 



" We have been long familiar with the fact, that the 

 manners and social habits of Americans are not to our 

 taste, and that few persons who could obtain a respect- 

 able maintenance in Europe, would find the change to 

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