 | Jacob Bigelow - 1817 - 736 pagine
...rebellion of Bacon ; and some of them ate plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very inn NOTES. pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days. One would blow up a feather in the air, another would dart straws at it with much fury ; another stark naked was sitting up in... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 632 pagine
...to quell the rebellion of Bacon; and some them ate plentifully of it : the effect of which was a wry pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days. One would blow up a feather in the air, another would dart straws at it with ouch fury j another stark naked was sitting up in... | |
 | Walter Cooper Dendy - 1845 - 482 pagine
...Bacon, at James' Town some soldiers, after eating the young leaves of stramonium for spinach, enacted " a very pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools...straws at it with much fury ; another, stark naked, 22 FF was seen sitting up in a corner, like a monkey, grinning and making mouths." In this frantic... | |
 | Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - 1855 - 324 pagine
...salad, by some of the soldiers sent thither to quell the rebellion of Bacon ; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very...it for several days : one would blow up a feather in the air ; another would dart straws at it with much fury ; and another stark naked was sitting up... | |
 | Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - 1855 - 312 pagine
...salad, by some of the soldiers sent thither to quell the rebellion of Bacon ; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very...upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air ; another would dart straws at it with much fury j and another stark naked was sitting up... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 572 pagine
...young for a boiled salad by some of the soldiers, to pacify the troubles of bacon, and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very...they turned natural fools upon it for several days. — Beverly, Hist, of Virginia, Book II. The Jamestown weed is excellent for curing burns and assuaging... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 pagine
...young for a boiled salad by some of the soldiers, to pacify the troubles of bacon, and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very...they turned natural fools upon it for several days. — Becerly, Hist. of Virginia, Book II. The Jamestown weed is excellent for curing burns and assuaging... | |
 | Alfred Stillé - 1860 - 982 pagine
...Jamestown which was alluded to above. Beverley informs us that " some of them ate plentifully of the plant, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy; for...upon it for several days. One would blow up a feather in the air, another would dart straws at it with much fury ; and another, stark naked, was sitting... | |
 | James Sowerby - 1866 - 640 pagine
...in his " History of Virginia." He says, — " The James-town weed, which resembles the Thorny-apple of Peru (and I take to be the plant so called), is...upon it for several days. One would blow up a feather in the air, another would dart straws at it with much fury ; another stark naked was seen sitting up... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 294 pagine
...•was gathered very young for a boiled salad, by some of the soldiers sent thither [ie to Virginia] to quell the rebellion of Bacon ; and some of them...it for several days : one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another, stark naked, was sitting up... | |
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Bacon; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy; for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another... 
