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absorbed acid gas albumen alcohol ammonia animal asafoetida atmosphere become beer beverages bitter blood body boiling bread breathe burning carbonic acid carbonic acid gas cent chemical chemistry chemists chewed chicory chyle coca cocoa coffee common composition compounds constituents consumed consumption contains cultivated decay diastase digestion dissolved distilled dried drink earth effects ether extracted fermentation fibrin flavour flesh-formers flowers garlic give gluten grain heat hemp hops hydrogen inch Indian infusion ingredients intoxicating juice kind known lacteals leaf leaves less lime liquid liquor lungs malt milk mineral matter mixed narcotic natural nearly nitric acid nitrogen nutritious odour opium oxygen Paraguay peculiar phosphoric acid plant poisonous portion possesses prepared produced properties proportion quantity roasted saliva salt smell soil solid starch stomach substances sugar sulphuric acid sweet taste tion tobacco vapour varieties vegetable food volatile oil weight whole wine yield
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Page 285 - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust All my smooth body.
Page 32 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Page 543 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! But soft ! but soft ! aside : here comes the king.
Page 312 - ... the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket...
Page 375 - ... the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days. One would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury...
Page 258 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 258 - Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? "They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 207 - Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
Page 314 - Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely under the influence of the opium talked incoherently; their features were flushed ; their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usually produced in two hours, and lasts four or five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility,boih moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible...
Page 32 - And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...