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The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 230
by Samuel Johnson - 1823
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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...fafcinating plant, whofe kettle has fcarcely time to cool, who with Tea amufes the evening, with Tea folaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning. He...notion, that Bohea and Green Tea are leaves of the fame fhrub. gathered at different times of the year. He is of ppinionj that they are produced by different...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...himself as ' a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle...the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.' Johnson's Works, vi. 21. That 'he never felt the least inconvenience from it' may well be doubted....
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...himself as ' a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle...the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.' Johnson's Works, vi. 21. That 'he never felt the least inconvenience from it' may well be doubted....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...extract, a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle...morning. He begins by refuting a popular notion, that $ohea and Green Tea are leaves of the same shrub, gathered at different times of the year. He is of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...extract, a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle...and Green Tea are leaves of the same shrub, gathered such a book it imports little which part is first read, or first examined. For the entertainment of...
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Memoirs of the life of Thomas Beddoes, with an analytical account of his ...

John Edmonds Stock - 1811 - 508 pages
...himself to be "a hardened and shameless tea-drinker; who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle...the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning." The opinions of this great man might, in other instances besides this, be sufficiently imposing to...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...himself as " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted bis meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle...the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning." Mr Hanway wrote an angiy answer to his playful animadversions in " the Gazetteer " of May 26, 1756...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...collection of voyages and travels projected by his friend Newbery. When a new bridge, also, was about to be the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle...solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning : Te veniente die, Te decedente .' Hanway published an angry reply, and Johnson after a full and deliberate...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 pages
...extract, a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle...morning. He begins by refuting a popular notion, that Bobea and Green Tea are leaves of the same shrub, gathered at different times of the year. He is of...
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An Historical Sketch of Watertown, in Massachusetts: From the First ...

Convers Francis - 1830 - 164 pages
...refreshing beverage- the praises of which Dr. Johnson has celebrated by describing himself as one " who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning." They seem to have been apprehensive that their measures of hostility against tea would be least likely...
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