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Page 129
... Third Edition . London , 1849-50 . Pp . 1538 . 2. The Confessions of an English Opium - Eater . Fifth Edition . London . VOL . LXXIV . - NO . CCCCLIV . I * M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary , edit . 1847 , p BLACKWOOD'S ...
... Third Edition . London , 1849-50 . Pp . 1538 . 2. The Confessions of an English Opium - Eater . Fifth Edition . London . VOL . LXXIV . - NO . CCCCLIV . I * M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary , edit . 1847 , p BLACKWOOD'S ...
Page 130
... Opium - Eater , long , long ago noticed in our pages , but , to us who have been reading it to - day , as fresh and new as ever - as full of in- terest , as suggestive of profound re- flection . We who are ourselves some- what ...
... Opium - Eater , long , long ago noticed in our pages , but , to us who have been reading it to - day , as fresh and new as ever - as full of in- terest , as suggestive of profound re- flection . We who are ourselves some- what ...
Page 131
... opium and hemp , and the betel nut , among eastern Asiatics , mounts up to the times of most fabulous antiquity , as probably does that of the pepper tribe in the South Sea Islands and the Indian archipelago ; while in northern Eu- rope ...
... opium and hemp , and the betel nut , among eastern Asiatics , mounts up to the times of most fabulous antiquity , as probably does that of the pepper tribe in the South Sea Islands and the Indian archipelago ; while in northern Eu- rope ...
Page 139
... opium and the intoxicating hemp may not hereafter be induced to abandon their hereditary drugs , and to substitute the foreign hop in their place ? From such a change in one article of consump- tion , how great a change in the char ...
... opium and the intoxicating hemp may not hereafter be induced to abandon their hereditary drugs , and to substitute the foreign hop in their place ? From such a change in one article of consump- tion , how great a change in the char ...
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... opium , especially because , by his zeal , activity , and by the terror he inspired , he had given life and vigour to the Chinese custom - house , and had made a great advance towards the sup- pression of opium smuggling . " İn France ...
... opium , especially because , by his zeal , activity , and by the terror he inspired , he had given life and vigour to the Chinese custom - house , and had made a great advance towards the sup- pression of opium smuggling . " İn France ...
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Page 314 - And therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other ; whose medicinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad...
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