 A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse.  Aberdeen University Studies - Seite 4051910Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 Seiten
...informed his subjects that smoking, or to use the language of the day, taking tobacco, " is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull...to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1824 - 330 Seiten
...prejudice than dignity, informs his loving subjects that " it is a custome loathsome to the eye,hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 1036 Seiten
...prejudice than dignity, informs his loving subjects that -' it is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatcfull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs; and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bdltomlesse.'... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1828 - 210 Seiten
...remarkable passage occurs: — " It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." But notwithstanding... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 Seiten
...wrote his celebrated " Counterblaste to Tobacco," in which he remarks that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull...the lungs ; and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless f;' whilst, at the same... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1830 - 642 Seiten
...among you to be scorned and contemned : A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse. ' Such is the celebrated... | |
 | 1868 - 746 Seiten
...course in this curious work, the king tells his '"loving subjects' that smoking is a custom loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and the black stinking fumes thereof are nearest resembling the horrible stygean smoke of the pit that... | |
 | 1832 - 406 Seiten
...remarkable passage occurs : — " It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Styginn smoke of the pit that is bottomless." But notwithstanding this... | |
 | 1832 - 428 Seiten
...Smoking now rages like the Cholera, although he denounced the custom as " loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." With this Leviathan in... | |
 | 1851 - 738 Seiten
...loving subjects that, " smoking 13 a custom loathesome to the eye, and hatefull to the nose, harmeful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygean smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse." Finding... | |
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