The World's Commercial Products; a Descriptive Account of the Economic Plants of the World and of Their Commercial Uses
- ISBN-10
- 1230079343
- ISBN-13
- 9781230079349
- Pages
- 134
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Rarebooksclub.com
- Author
- William George Freeman
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...English colony of Virginia, and Francis Drake returned from that colony they brought back with them the cured tobacco leaf for smoking, and, in addition, certain pipes and apparatus used in the process. The tobacco and implements were handed over by them to Sir Walter Raleigh. There seems to be some difference of opinion as to who was the first Englishman to seriously adopt the new habit, but the honour is generally ascribed to Ralph Lane himself, and the stories of the first finding of Sir Walter Raleigh smoking by his servant, and the statement that he "tooke a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffolde " are too well known to need more than passing mention. No sooner had the custom of smoking become seriously adopted by a few individuals than it spread with marvellous rapidity among all nations, the most rapid strides in the spread of the habit taking place during the seventeenth century. The rapid increase in the use of tobacco was viewed by the authorities, and especially by the priestly classes, with the greatest concern, who saw in the habit the final complete demoralisation of the people. Even in our own country, in spite of the praises of the poets, the divines bitterly denounced the new herb which rapidly gained popularity among all classes of the people, notably among the soldiery. Strong as the opposition to tobacco was in England, the vehemence with which it was opposed was as nothing compared to the drastic measures taken for its suppression on the Continent, and it will be of interest to note the rise of the use of the fragrant weed in the chief countries of Europe. The practice of smoking tobacco did not become general in France until the reign of Louis XIII, when the habit took a great hold upon...
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