| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...vital functions were fo much difordered, that his life was a long difeafe. His moft frequent affailant was the headach, which he ufed to relieve by inhaling...in perpetual need of female attendance ; extremely fenfible of cold, fo that he wore a kind of fur doublet, under a fhirt of very coarfe warm linen with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...vital fun&ions were fo much disordered, that his life was a long difeafe. His moft frequent affailant was the headach, which he ufed to relieve by inhaling...fteam of coffee, which he very frequently required. Mod of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was com.municated by a female domeftick... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...funftions were fo much difofdered, " that his life was a long difeafe. His moft fre" quent afTailant was the head-ach, which he ufed " to relieve by inhaling...petty " peculiarities was communicated by a female do" meftic of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him " perhaps after the middle of life. He was then ** fo... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...difeafe. His mod frequent affailant was the headach, which he ufed to relieve by inhalmg the ileam of coffee, which he very frequently required. Moft...after the middle of life. He was then fo weak as to (land in perpetual need of female attendance; extremely fenfible of cold, fo that he wore a kind of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...difeafe. His moft frequent afTailant was the headach, which he ufed to relieve by inhaling the ileam of coffee, which he very frequently required. Moft...after the middle of life. He was then fo weak as to fland in perpetual need of female attendance; extremely fenfible of cold, fo that he wore a kind of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...difeafe. His moft frequent aflailant was the headach, which he ufed to relieve by inhaling the fleam of coffee, which he very frequently required. Moft...after the middle of life. He was then fo weak as to (land in perpetual need of female attendance; extremely fenfible of cold, fo that he" wore a kind of... | |
| 1793 - 738 pages
...vital functions were fo much difordered, that his life was a long difeafc. His moil frequent aflailant was the headach, which he ufed to relieve by inhaling the fteam of con'ee, which he very frequently required. " Molt of what can be toi J concerning his pctty-.peculiariiies... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...headache, which he used to relieve by Jnhaling the steam of coffee, which he very frequently required. Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestick of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle of lifj. He was then so weak... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee, which he very frequently re-r quired. . ' > Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestick of the Earl of Oxford,, who knew him perhaps after the middle of life. He was then so weak... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...head-ach, which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee, which he very frequently required. Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestic of the earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle 1 This account of the difference... | |
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