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In Olearius 'Travels, a King of Persia commands his steward's head to be cut off, and on its being brought to him, remarks,' what a pity it was, that a man possessing such fine mustachios, should have been executed, 'but he adds,' Ah! it was your own fault. '
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In 1634 Olearius found the Russians so addicted to tobacco that they would spend their money on it rather than bread.
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Olearius found it fully established in Persia, 1637, only about fifty years after its arrival in England.
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Paris, 1806. (vol. ii: p. 224.) [38] Olearius, Adam.
All About Coffee 1909
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Oelschlager (_see_ Olearius) _Of the Excellent Qualities_, etc.,
All About Coffee 1909
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Adam Olearius (or Oelschlager), a German Orientalist (1599-1671), traveled in Persia as secretary to a German embassy in 1633-36.
All About Coffee 1909
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P. de la Roque, and Galland in France; Delia Valle in Italy; Olearius and Niebhur in Germany; Nieuhoff in Holland, and others.
All About Coffee 1909
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Adam Olearius [38] (1599-1671), who was secretary to the German Embassy that traveled in Turkey in 1633-36, tells of the great diversions made in Persian coffee houses "by their poets and historians, who are seated in a high chair from whence they make speeches and tell satirical stories, playing in the meantime with a little stick and using the same gestures as our jugglers and legerdemain men do in England."
All About Coffee 1909
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Olearius of Leipzig, who had already previously presented ethics in tabular form, examined thoroughly, and with the most minute and discriminating exactness, the purpose and the nature of casuistry; [159] casuistry was more fully carried out by Dannhauer, [160] by
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Among the leaders of this didactic school may be mentioned a whole family of the name of [208] Olearius, who throughout this century were clergymen and hymn-writers, and the last of whom publishcd, in 1707, one of the earliest works on German hymnology.
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