"It has come to my knowledge since," he added, "that Hawley sent some one to examine the housekeeper at Stone Court, and she said that she gave the patient all the opium in the phial I left, as well as a good deal of brandy.
" The chief new instruction that Lydgate had to give was on the administration of extremely moderate doses of opium, in case of the sleeplessness continuing after several hours.
Lydgate, when abroad, had already been interested in this question: he was strongly convinced against the prevalent practice of allowing alcohol and persistently administering large doses of opium; and he had repeatedly acted on this conviction with a favorable result.
Under the first galling pressure of foreseen difficulties, and the first perception that his marriage, if it were not to be a yoked loneliness, must be a state of effort to go on loving without too much care about being loved, he had once or twice tried a dose of opium.
When I say, I go in for the dose that cures, it doesn't follow that I go in for opium in a given case of gout.
He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on lobster; he had made himself ill with doses of opium.
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Lin Zexu (1785~1850) was a leading Chinese scholar and official of the Qing Dynasty, accepted as a national hero for his stance against the British before the Anglo-Chinese Opium War (1839~1842).
Qing Dynasty : The Westernization Movement The rude realities of the Opium War, the unequal treaties, and the mid-century mass uprisings caused Qing courtiers and officials to recognize the need to strengthen China.
Internal problems and external conflicts led to the decay of a glorious empire from the beginning of 19th century, focusing on the Opium war and the following unequal treaties.
:Sure, it doesn't taste as good as candy, ice cream or opium, but it's full of essential vitamins and minerals that'll make your muscles explode like battleship cannons.
Mathias Enard, Compass •《》 Compass chronicles one long night of memory, opium, illness and insomnia spent by Franz Ritter, a musicologist with an interest in Iranian music.
,《》(Confessions of an English Opium Eater),.
Lin Zexu (1785~1850) was a leading Chinese scholar and official of the Qing Dynasty, accepted as a national hero for his stance against the British before the Anglo-Chinese Opium War (1839~1842).
During the Japanese invasion period, the brothers produced more than 20 animated propaganda shorts focusing on various patriotic topics from resistance against Japanese troops, opium and imperialism.
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love.
A wild joviality seemed to rush through the Dryad, as though she were intoxicated with opium.
