signal for dispersion to those who survive it.--_Q. Rev._

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Christoval Acosta, speaking of the _pine-apple_, says that "no medicinal
virtues have been discovered in it, and it is good for nothing but to
eat."

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SMOKING.

Joshuah Silvester questioned whether the devil had done more harm in
latter ages by means of fire and smoke, through the invention of guns,
or of tobacco-pipes; and he conjectured that Satan introduced the
fashion, as a preparatory course of smoking for those who were to be
matriculated in his own college:

As roguing Gipsies tan their little elves,
To make them tann'd and ugly, like themselves.

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LAW

Must be kept as a garden, with frequent digging, weeding, turning, &c.,
for that which was in one age convenient, and, perhaps, necessary,
becomes in another prejudicial.--_Roger North._