 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 páginas
...objects at this place (Singapore) that I had the curiosity to visit, was the opium-smoker in his lotvcu, and certainly it is a most fearful sight, although,...level of the brute, and wallowing in his filth. The idiotsmile and deathlike stupor of the opium debauchee hai something far more awful to the gaze than... | |
 | Robert Jocelyn Jocelyn (Viscount) - 1841 - 188 páginas
...of these cool and luscious fruits that were here his morning meal. One of the objects at this place that I had the curiosity to visit, was the opium-smoker...brute and wallowing in his filth. The idiot smile and death-like stupor however of the opium debauchee has something far more awful to the gaze than the... | |
 | 1841 - 658 páginas
...Lordship's account of these receptacles and their frequenters : — " One of the objects at this place, that I had the curiosity to visit, was the opium-smoker...drunkard from spirits, lowered to the level of the brute wallowing in his filth. The idiot smile and death-like stupor, however, of the opium debauchee, has... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1841 - 712 páginas
...about the injurious effects of the drug is quite true. When at Singapore, "I had the curiosity to visit the opium-smoker in his heaven; and certainly it is...level of the brute, and wallowing in his filth. The idiotic smile and deathlike stupor, however, of the opium debauchee has something far more awful to... | |
 | 1851 - 428 páginas
...OPIUM-SMOKER. ONE of the objects at Singapore that I had the curiosity to visit, was the opinm-smoker in bis heaven ; and certainly it is a most fearful sight,...degrading to the eye as the drunkard from spirits, lowering to the level of the brute, and wallowing in his filth. The idiot smile and death-like stupor,... | |
 | 1842 - 602 páginas
...The description given of the opium-shops is worth quoting : — « One of the objects at this place that I had the curiosity to visit, was the opium-smoker...and wallowing in his filth. The , idiot smile and deathlike stupor, however, of the opium debauchee, has something far more awful to the gaze than the... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 338 páginas
...suffer a severe chastisement than inform against those who sell it." " I had the curiosity to visit the opium-smoker in his heaven ; and certainly it...level of the brute, and wallowing in his filth. The idiotic smile and death-like stupor however, of the opium debauchee, has something far more awful to... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 212 páginas
...certainly it is a most fearful sight, although, perhaps, not so degrading to the eye as the dninkard from spirits, lowered to the level of the brute, and wallowing in his filth. The idiotic smile and death-like stupor however, of the opium debauchee, has something far more awful to... | |
 | Thomas Allom - 1843 - 260 páginas
...the following painful description of a smoking-house at Sincapore. " One of the objects at this place that I had the curiosity to visit, was the opiumsmoker...level of the brute and wallowing in his filth. The idiot-smile and death-like stupor of the opium debauchee has something far more awful to the gaze than... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 790 páginas
...Chinese opium-eaters serves to illustrate our opening observation ' One of the objects at this place, that I had the curiosity to visit, was the opium-smoker...lowered to the level of the brute, and wallowing in his fill]:. The idiot-smile and death-like stupor, however, of the opium debauchee, has something far moro... | |
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I had the curiosity to visit, was the opium-smoker in his heaven ; and certainly it is a most fearful sight, although perhaps not so degrading to the eye as the drunkard from spirits, lowered to the level of the brute and wallowing in his filth. The... 
