 | 1805 - 762 pages
...clafs is inanimate, formal, and inactive, confhmtly endeavouring to afTume the gravity of years. " To beguile the many tedious and heavy hours that muft...of eight or nine years, wears, as an appendage to hrr dref», a fhiaJl iilken puifc or pocket to hold tobacco and a pipe, with the ufe of which many... | |
 | 1805 - 552 pages
...and heavy hours, that rrmlr. unavoidably occur to the fecluded females tolally unqualified for menial purfuits, the tobacco-pipe is the ufual expedient....wears, as an appendage to her drefs, a fmall filken purie or pocket to hold tobacco and a pipe, with the ule of which many of them are »ot unacquainted... | |
 | 1805 - 756 pages
...is inanimate, formal, and inafHve, conftantly endeavouring to aifuine the gravity of угагз. " To beguile the many tedious and heavy hours that muft unavoidably occur to the fecludrd females totally unqualified for mental purfnits, the tobacco pipe is the ufual expedient.... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 508 pages
...occur to the secluded females totally unqualified for mental pursuits, the tobacco-pipe is the usual expedient. Every female from the age of eight or nine years wears, as an appendage to her dress, a small silken purse or pocket to hold tobacco and a pipe, with the use of which many of them... | |
 | 1826 - 796 pages
...habit equally prevails ; and a modern traveller in that country (Barrow) states that every Chinese female from the age of eight or nine years wears, as an appendage to her dress, a small silken purse or pocket to hold tobacco, and a pipe, with the use of which many of them... | |
 | 1826 - 780 pages
...habit equally prevails ; and a modern traveller in that country (Barrow) states that every Chinese female from the age of eight or nine years wears, as an appendage to her dress, a small silken purse or pocket to hold tobacco, and a pipe, with the use of which many of them... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...occur to secluded females, thus totally unqualified for mental pursuits, the tobacco-pipe is the usual expedient. Every female from the age of eight or nine years, wears as an appendage to her dress, a small silken purse or pocket to hold tobacco, and a pipe, with the use of which many of them... | |
 | 1841 - 982 pages
...occur to secluded females, thus totally unqualified for mental pursuits, the tobacco-pipe is the usual expedient. Every female from the age of eight or nine years, wears as an appendage to her dress, a small silken purse or pocket to bold tobacco, and a pipe, with the use of which many of them... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...a quantity of the leaves strongly compressed." In Barrow's travels he remarked, that every Chinese female, from the age of eight or nine years, wears, as an appendage to her dress,' a small silken purse or pocket to hold tobacco and a pipe. The mechanical contrivances of the... | |
 | 1853 - 826 pages
...the mouth ; in India all classes and both sexes smoke ; in China tho practice is so universal that " every female, from the age of eight or nine years, wears as an appendage to her dress a small silken pocket, to hold tobacco and a pipe." It is even argued by Pallas that the extensive... | |
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To beguile the many tedious and heavy hours, that must unavoidably occur to the secluded females totally unqualified for mental pursuits, the tobacco-pipe is the usual expedient. Every female from the age of eight or nine years wears, as an appendage... 
