The mysteries of tobacco / by the Rev. Benjamin I. Lane ; with an introductory letter addressed to the Hon. John Quincy Adams by the Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox.

  • Lane, Benjamin I. (Benjamin Ingersol), 1797-1875.
Date:
1845
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Credit: The mysteries of tobacco / by the Rev. Benjamin I. Lane ; with an introductory letter addressed to the Hon. John Quincy Adams by the Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    with your own consent, to prefix your name to our publication. I call it ours—for no other reason than my obvious connection with it and cordial approbation of it; and certainly not to deprive the Reverend Mr. Lane of his due honors as the au- thor and the producer of a work so learned, elo- quent, and worthy, and at the same time so sea- sonable and so needed in our menaced community. I trust also, Honored Sir, that it will meet your own high approbation ; and that before you leave us in your venerable age, you will recommend to your countrymen a full and honest consideration of its contents; nay, a prompt and principled compliance with its luminous and friendly inculca- tions. The time is coming when your opinions will be quoted with great deference, by the gene- rations that are to come after us, in this great and incomparable republic. You are already regarded by the nation as an honored relic of the olden time, the by-gone age of the Revolution; and when you disappear from the light of the living, as there will be no other specimen of the sort remaining on the stage of time, so, for that reason as well as for other and nobler ones, will a grateful