 ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.  All the Year Round - Seite 2771891Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1804 - 452 Seiten
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice, he closes with this royal COUNTER-BLAST : " It is a custom, loathsome to the EYE, hateful to the NOSE,...dangerous to the LUNGS ; and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless .'" II.... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 516 Seiten
...discouraged the use of this vile weed. In train king James assured his subjects, that the smoking of it was a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dan* gerous to the lungs. Opposition made proselytes ; and the united influence of fashion and... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 Seiten
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." i Few would... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 Seiten
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Few would... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 Seiten
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice,, he closes with this royal counter blast : — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs; and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" To conclude.... | |
 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 Seiten
...extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of " tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathesome to the eye, " hateful to the nose, harmful to the...dangerous to " the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, " nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit " that is bottomless/' * Few... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 508 Seiten
...Notes of Vanity upon you ; by the Custom thereof " making yourselves to be wondered at by all fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among...dangerous to the " Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, *' neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless /" If... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 510 Seiten
...of Vanity upon you ; by the Custom thereof " making yourselves to be wondered at by all- fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among...dangerous to the " Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, " neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless!" If... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 440 Seiten
...of her fair hand, a pipe of tobacco." The The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 454 Seiten
...of tobacco." . ,; .... 0 .,• ..„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible... | |
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