 | Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 pagini
...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...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." Many temporary ebullitions of spleen of this monarch... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1824 - 330 pagini
...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." In 1604 this monarch... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 1036 pagini
...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.' In 1604.this monarch... | |
 | 1826 - 796 pagini
...the devil than that of tobacco, he concludes by pronouncing the practice of inhaling it " a cusióme loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." But even during James's life, some writers were not... | |
 | 1826 - 780 pagini
...pronouncing the practice of inhaling it " a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." But even during James's life, some writers were not... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1828 - 204 pagini
...Counterblaste to Tobacco," in which the following 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."... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 pagini
...his description of it, as " loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the sight, harmefull to the orgaine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless."* Such, however, is the attachment of all classes of... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1830 - 642 pagini
...strangers that come 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.... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagini
...Counterblaste to Tobacco,' in which the following 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."... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pagini
...his celebrated book called Counterblasts to Tobacco, in which he says that the custom of smoking " is loathsome 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 smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
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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. 
