Word: teas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When she makes my evening tea...
...fags very leniently. One of Gladstone's fags, John Smith Mansfield, now a police magistrate at the Marlborough-street Court, says of him: "He was not exacting, and I had an easy time of it. I cannot remember doing anything more than laying out his breakfast and tea table, and occasionally doing an errand. I recall him as a good-looking, rather delicate youth with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy, and well dressed - not given much to athletic exercises, but occasionally sculling, playing cricket and hockey...
...repaired his natural forces with doses of fruit, jelly or jam, pots of which he kept conveniently at hand in his study. Gladstone eschews tobacco and only drinks light wines. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes prefers an entirely undisturbed and unclouded brain for mental work, unstimulated by anything stronger than tea or coffee, unaffected by tobacco or other drugs. He does not believe that any stimulus is of advantage to a healthy student, unless now and then, socially, in the intervals of mental labor. "I have never smoked," Matthew Arnold writes, "and have always drunk wine - chiefly claret...
...rapidly as possible of his researches, drinks his sugar and water, and retires as rapidly and mysteriously as he entered, by the same small back door. The near approach of a professor is invariably heralded by an attendant who places upon his desk a tray with decanter of water, tea-spoon, goblet and three lumps (never more) of sugar. The College de France, founded by Francis I. in 1530, was entirely rebuilt at different times between 1611 and 1774, and extended in 1831. Over the entrance the inscription, "Docet Omnia," indicates that its sphere embraces every branch of science...
...dancing at his church in this city last Sunday night, would lower himself enough to look down upon one such scene as this, he would at least be compelled to confess that the human form is capable of more poetry than can be found at the average gossipy tea drinks." And then with a grand burst of philosophical sentiment he exclaims, "And does a creating Divinity forbid his humanity's making the most of the powers he has given to it to make itself beautiful in form and happy? and movement?" No! we emphatically reply, no! A creating Divinity never...