| 1855 - 534 páginas
...gives the following description of the qualities of tea: — ' It tempers the spirits, and harmonises the mind; dispels lassitude, and relieves fatigue;...awakens thought, and prevents drowsiness; lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.' — Hassall, p 272. Now, it is ohvious... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 430 páginas
...and effects of the infusion of the leaves of the tea-plant. " It tempers the spirits, and harmonises the mind ; dispels lassitude, and relieves fatigue...awakens thought and prevents drowsiness ; lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties." A very considerable amount of skill and... | |
| Robert Sears - 1852 - 628 páginas
...authority ; after praising the flavor and aroma of the infusion he says : " It tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves...awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body and clears the perceptive faculties ;" and the same author makes one of the emperors... | |
| Robert Sears - 1851 - 630 páginas
...authority ; after praising the flavor and aroma of the infusion he says : " It tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves...awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body and clears the perceptive faculties ;" and the same author makes one of the emperors... | |
| Co-operative union, ltd - 168 páginas
...qualities and effects of the infusion of the leaves of the Tea-plant :— " It tempers the spirits, and harmonizes the mind ; dispels lassitude, and relieves...awakens thought, and prevents drowsiness ; lightens or refreshens the body, and clears the perceptive faculties." — Quoted in the Lancet, p. 92, No.... | |
| Arthur Hill Hassall - 1857 - 756 páginas
...effects of the infusion of the leaves of the tea-plant : — " It tempers the spirits, and harmonises the mind ; dispels lassitude, and relieves fatigue...awakens thought, and prevents drowsiness ; lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties." In Pereira's "Materia Medica" we find... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 páginas
...learned Chinese who lived in the dynasty of Tang, AD 618 to 906, says of it: "It tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind ; dispels lassitude and relieves...awakens thought and prevents drowsiness; lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties." These effects are true of tea taken in... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 874 páginas
...learned Chinese who lived in the dynasty of Tang, AD 618 to 906, says of it : "It tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind ; dispels lassitude and relieves...awakens thought and prevents drowsiness ; lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties." These effects are true of tea taken in... | |
| 254 páginas
...of the Christian era that it there came into general use as a beverage. " It tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves...fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, refreshes the body and clears the reflective faculties," says the learned personage Lo-yu, in a treatise... | |
| A. H. W., Facts - 1873 - 478 páginas
...every respect one of the most desirable articles in general use. It tempers the spirits and harmonises the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue ; awakens thought and prevents drowsiness; lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties." The author of "Chemistry of Common Life"... | |
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