...and invalids, is forbidden to taste food and drink from sun-rise to sunset. He may not even smoke nor take snuff. This injunction falls easy on the rich,...divan, or at their doors, without their favourite pipe, and having no other occupation than turning with their fingers a chaplet of beads, which almost every...

...idleness during the greater part of the day ; yet even these look very wretched, fixed on their divans or at their doors, without their favourite pipe in their mouths, and with no occupation but the listless fingering of the beads. It is on the class of artisans and workmen,...