 | John Walker - 1813 - 1014 pagina’s
...God, with much zeale and adoration, so that he concluded he was an a-christ, not an atheist. He tooke a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold, w0h some it, which putt Sir \V. into a passion , and be sayd that since the world did not understand... | |
 | 1822 - 430 pagina’s
...partial to it, that he took, says a nenrly contemporary writer, " a pipe of tobacco a little before lie went to the scaffold, which some formal persons were scandalized at ; but I think," he adds, " 'twas well and properly done to settle his spirits." The same author adds the following... | |
 | 1823 - 442 pagina’s
...remembered, and is said to have been so partial to it, that he took, says a nearly contemporary writer, "a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the...formal persons were scandalized at ; but I think," he adds, " 'twas well and properly done to settle his spirits." The same au•tiior adds the following... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pagina’s
...he tooke and threw into thc fire, and burnt hefore his face. he was an a-christ, not an atheist. He took a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold, wch some formall persons were scandalized at, but I thinke 'twas well, and properly donne to settle... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1859 - 354 pagina’s
...pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffolde, which some female persons were scandalised at ; but I think 'twas well and properly donne to settle his spirits." • am almost poysoned.' ' If it offend,' quoth Tarlton, ' let's every one take a little of the smell,... | |
 | Richard Schomburgk - 1873 - 146 pagina’s
...chosen as the originator of smoking in England, and who brought it into fashion, and it is said he took a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold. The progress in smoking went on steadily in all classes, and prevailed amongst the rich and poor, the... | |
 | Charles James Dunphie - 1881 - 416 pagina’s
...about to suffer his cruel death, what was his last earthly pleasure ? We are assured that "he tooke a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold, wch some formall persons were scandalised at; but 'twas well and properly donne, to settle his epirita."... | |
 | 1891 - 1144 pagina’s
...custom of smoking its leaves. Sir Walter Raleigh eagerly adopted and extolled the new fashion, and " took a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold." Through the example of this accomplished soldier, sailor, scholar, courtier, the custom became established... | |
 | 1896 - 966 pagina’s
...a little before he went to the scaffblde," says Aubrey, "which some female persons were scandalised at ; but I think 'twas well and properly donne to settle his spirits." Speaking of this noble victim of James I., Sir Walter Besant, in his handsome volume on "Westminster,"... | |
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He tooke a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold, which some formall persons were scandalized at, but I thinke 'twas well and properly donne, to settle his spirits. 
