 | 1804 - 452 pagini
...the unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice, he closes with this royal COUNTER-BLAST : " It is a custom, loathsome to the EYE, hateful to the...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless .'" II. Modern Geography, A Description of the... | |
 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pagini
...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...when they reflect, that he seeks no other species of oblivion to his care ; for, I believe, notwithstanding a Dutchman's eulogium upon his pipe, that... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 pagini
...husbands were not ashamr ed to pollute them with the fierftetual stinking torment of tobacco smoke : the concluding sentence of this extraordinary composition...horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." i Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the narcotic enjoyment of his pipe, when they reflect,... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 pagini
...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,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" To conclude. . The moral, to be deduced from... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 440 pagini
...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,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 454 pagini
...of tobacco." . ,; .... 0 .,• ..„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 442 pagini
...pipe of tobacco," The The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome lo the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 820 pagini
...all Foreign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; a Custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose,...black stinking Fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke, of the Pit that is bottomless!" Lives of this Class of MEN, and which at Twenty-Jive... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 568 pagini
...all Foreign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; a Custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose,...black stinking Fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke, of the Pit that is bottomless.1" * It is an accurate and momentous Fact, that... | |
 | John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - 1815 - 308 pagini
...all foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come amongst you, to be scorned and contemned;' a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian pit that is bottomless." As to the smoking of tobacco, it may be beneficial to persons... | |
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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. 
