 | American periodicals - 1848 - 742 pages
...dealt with for coming to that lecture with a pair of wanton open116 History of Babylon. [August, worked gloves, slit at the thumbs and fingers, for the purpose of taking snuff. For, as Master Cotton observed, for what end should these vain openings be, but for the intent of taking... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1848 - 626 pages
...Beloved friend, Hansard Knowles,' clearly show that the times, and not the man were in error 1 worked gloves, slit at the thumbs and fingers, for the purpose of taking enuif. For, as Master Cotton observed, for what end should these vain openings be, but for the intent... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - American literature - 1854 - 268 pages
...Mistris Wilbore hath since been dealt with for coming to that lecture with a pair of wanton open-worked gloves, slit at the thumbs and fingers, for the purpose of taking snuff. For, as Master Cotton observed, for what end should these vain openings be, but for the intent of taking... | |
 | Vermont Historical Society - Vermont - 1926 - 630 pages
...to the lecture of Master Shepard 86 THE VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY with a pair of wanton open-worked gloves, slit at the thumbs and fingers for the purpose of taking snuff. ' ' He then turns to his own late eighteenth-century epoch. In tracing the education of a boy of that... | |
 | Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer - New York (N.Y.) - 1909 - 598 pages
...explained, had . . . since been dealt with for coming to that lecture with a pair of wanton open worked gloves, slit at the thumbs and fingers for the purpose of taking snuff. For, as Master Cotton observed, for what end should those vain openings be, but for the intent of taking... | |
 | Royall Tyler - Fiction - 1970 - 234 pages
...mistress Miriam hath since been dealte with, for coming to that lecture with a pair of wanton open-workt gloves, slit at the thumbs and fingers for the purpose of taking snuff; for, as master Cotton observed, for what end should those vaine opennings be but for the intent of... | |
 | Danvers Historical Society - Danvers (Mass.) - 1919 - 168 pages
...thy decay; All flesh is hay, • Thus think, and smoke tobacco. Doth juice medicinal proceed, Prom such a naughty, foreign weed; Then what's the power,...were anxious to cultivate it at Naumkeag. Governor Endecott and some of his company opposed its cultivation on the ground of its being highly injurious... | |
 | Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer - History - 2013 - 569 pages
...explained, had . . . since been dealt with for coming to that lecture with a pair of wanton open worked gloves, slit at the thumbs and fingers for the purpose of taking snuff. For, as Master Cotton observed, for what end should those vain openings be, but for the intent of taking... | |
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Wilbore — that is, for pointedly staring at her 'at the lecture in Boston.' The lady, he explained, had . . . since been dealt with for coming to that lecture with a pair of wanton open worked gloves, slit at the thumbs and fingers for the purpose of... 