Only thus much; by Hercules, I do hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth tendered to the use of man. Out-door Papers - Page 179by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 860 pages
...well-bronzed face, exclaim, "Tobacco, I do assert, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth tendered to the use of man!" Among the amusing epigrams that have been preserved, written in praise of tobacco, the following is... | |
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