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Excerpt from Biographical History of England, From Egbert the Great to the Revolution, Vol. 2: Consisting of Characters Disposed in Different Classes, and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads
Taking. Tobacco was much ridiculed by' the men Of falhion, in the reign of James; and the courtiers affeéted to rejeét it with horror. The King (aid, that tobacco was the lively image and pattern tell; for that it had, by allufion, in it all the parts and vices of the world, whereby hell may be gained; to Wit.
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