 Now have we many chimneys ; and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the...  Taxation, Past, Present, and Future - Page 237by William Lucas Sargant - 1874 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...this word is sometimes used to express some part of a chimney, and somctimcj as a substitute for " and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke " in those days was supposed to be a sufficient " hardening for the timber of the house, so it was " reputed a far better... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...complain ' of rheums, catarrhs, nnd poses ' (colds in the head). Then lisa ' we none but reredosscs J/ and ' our heads did never ache. For ' as the smoke in those days was ' supposed to be a sufficient Irard' ening for the timber of the house, ' so it was reputed a far better... | |
 | Thomas Beddoes - Diseases - 1802 - 502 pages
...MILLS, S«. Auguflin.'i, BrilUl. our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs 'and poses. THEN we had none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoake in those days was supposed tobe a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...of the timber must defend the men from robbing. Now have we many chimnies : and yet our tender lines complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses, then had...did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficent hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 362 pages
...and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, -catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredoses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine... | |
 | Charles Buck - Children - 1808 - 374 pages
...chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredoses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 464 pages
...Commerce, vol. I. p. 90, edit. 1764) says, that they were first introduced into England in 1180. " and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke " in those days was supposed to be a sufficient " hardening for the timber of the house, so it was " reputed a far better... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 466 pages
...sometimes used to express some part of a chimney, and sometimes a substitute for one. It aeenft " arid our heads did never ache. For as the smoke " in those days was supposed to be a sufficient " hardening for the timber of the house, so it was " reputed a far better... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - Kent (England) - 1814 - 380 pages
...the men from robbing. Now have we many chimnies; and yet our tenderlins complain of rheums, cattarrhs and poses ; then had we none but rere-dosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the sinoak in those days was supposedjto be a sufficient hardening for the! timber of the house, so it... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 398 pages
...yct our tender lines complain 'if rheums, eatarrhs and poses; then had we none but reredo9ses,andour heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far bctter medicine... | |
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