James I of England (1566–1625) king during union of English and Scottish crowns
A Counterblaste to Tobacco (1604)
“Have we referred to it with indignation, distance and contempt; and have we made it clear that it is filled only with corruption, vanity and falsehood?”
En avons-nous parlé avec indignation, éloignement et mépris; et avons-nous fait connaître qu'il n'était plein que de corruption, de vanité et de mensonge? <br class="br">Examens particuliers sur divers sujets, p. 321 http://books.google.com/books?id=esY9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA321 as translated by Mary Ilford in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), p. 116 <br class="br">Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects] (1690)
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