Category: History - British
The question of the influence of tea, as well as that of alcohol and tobacco, has occupied the attention of the author for some time. Apart from its physiological aspect, the subject of tea-drinking is extremely interesting; and in the following pages an attempt has been made...
The question of the influence of tea, as well as that of alcohol and tobacco, has occupied the attention of the author for some time. Apart from its physiological aspect, the su...
2. CHAPTER I.Introduced by the East India Company--Mrs. Pepys making her first cup of tea--Virtues of tea--Thomas Garway's advertisement--Waller's birthday ode--Tea a rarity in country homes...
3. CHAPTER II.The tea-plant formerly occupied a place of honour in every gentleman's green-house; but as it requires much care, and possesses little beauty, it is now rarely seen. Linnæus, th...
4. CHAPTER III.The teetotalers and tea--Extravagance of ladies--Joseph Livesey--Reformed drunkards as water-carriers--One thousand two hundred persons at one tea-party--How they brewed their t...
5. CHAPTER IV.The Siamese method of making tea--A three-legged teapot--Advice of a Chinese poet--How tea should be made--How Abernethy made tea for his guests--The "bubbling and loud-hissing...
6. CHAPTER V.Tea and dry bread _versus_ porter and beefsteak--Tea for soldiers--Opinion of Professor Parkes--Tea _versus_ spirits--Tea and Tel-el-Kebir--Lord Wolseley's testimony--Pegs and t...
7. CHAPTER VI.Rum-punch and poets--Alcohol as a stimulant--The king of the tea-drinkers--Dr. Johnson's teapot--Jonas Hanway's attack--Eloquence inspired by tea-drinking--A delightful tea-stor...
8. CHAPTER VII.A learned Dutchman's opinion of tea--Two hundred cups a day recommended--Tea the universal panacea--Tea-merchants greedy as hell--Degeneracy of the race through tea-drinking--Ap...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Tea heavily taxed--How it was adulterated in the "Good Old Times"--Efforts to secure a reduction in the duty--Why crime and ignorance prevail--Mr. Disraeli's proposal to reduce...