 | Samuel Hazard - 1841 - 598 Seiten
...plant; and v of smoking ; in vain did James I. assure his subjects that the - •• • custom was " loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The strong arm of the law opposed it ; the priest and the physician, the mofrom this circumstance it... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - 356 Seiten
...all foreign civil nations, and hy all strangers that come among you, to he scorned and contemned ; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the hrain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the hlack stinking fume thereof, nearest resemhling the horrihle... | |
 | Charles Clay - 1842 - 34 Seiten
...Blasts of Tobacco," in which the following remarkable passage occurs, — "It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless"; and again, in the same publication, he observes, — " Tobacco is the lively image arid pattern of... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1841 - 440 Seiten
...eye, hateful to the nose, harm fii! to the brain, dangerous to the lungs and in the black Blinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The strong arm of the law opposed it ; the priest and the physician, the moralist and the philanthropist... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1842 - 286 Seiten
...been tound in some great tobacco-takers, that aftei death were opened." He concludes with styling it " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible... | |
 | George Dodd - 1843 - 574 Seiten
...the use of tobacco is " a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Leaving these two authorities to balance each other, we must be content to treat the matter simply... | |
 | 1844 - 398 Seiten
...hateful to the noae, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blaek stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless;" but we may surely be allowed to say that it is not eharming to the senses. We have Been ladies smoking—young... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 Seiten
...he handled the quill and spoiled paper. In his " Counterblast to Tobacco," 1603, he says : " it is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and the black stinking fume thereof, is the nearest resemblance to... | |
 | George T. Fisher, William Alfred Delamotte, F. G. Delamotte - 1845 - 104 Seiten
...royal folly — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking...horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James the First wrote against tobacco — posterity must know it. It is another charge against this... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - 498 Seiten
...remarkable passage occurs : — • It it * raw: loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, barm&J ~ ant of sympathy placed between us by feelings borriii Stygian smoke of the pit that is, bottomless.** L1.1 notwithstanding this regal and sacerdotal... | |
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... 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. 
