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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. "
Saturday Night: Comprising a Review of New Publications, Biography, Essays ... - Σελίδα 229
1824
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Smoking and Smokers: An Antiquarian, Historical, Comical, Veritable, and ...

George T. Fisher, William Alfred Delamotte, F. G. Delamotte - 1845 - 104 σελίδες
...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...

The Constitution of Man

George Combe - 1845 - 498 σελίδες
...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...

The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the ..., Τόμος 2

William Goodman - 1845 - 440 σελίδες
...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...

Practical Elocution

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 σελίδες
...counter-blast against smoking and chewing tobacco, in the following just and strong language : " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygean smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The venerable Dr. Waterhouse, of Cambridge, to whom I...

Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 σελίδες
...counter-blast against smoking and chewing tobacco, in the following just and strong language : " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygean smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The venerable Dr. Waterhouse, of Cambridge, to whom I...

The Journal of Health and Monthly Miscellany, Τόμος 1

1846 - 408 σελίδες
...God, should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke. * * * It is a custom, loathsome to the eyes, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof nearest resembling the black Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. * * * * Were...

Geographical and statistical

John Macgregor - 1847 - 1442 σελίδες
...discouraged the flagrant delit of smoking; in vain did James I. assure his subjects that the custom was 'loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful...the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black in a potash kettle, set in an arch in such a manner that the edge of the kettle is defended all around...

Dwight's American Magazine, Τόμος 3

Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 σελίδες
...God, should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke. * * It is n custom, loathsome to the eyes, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof nearest resembling the black Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." "Fontana,"...

The progress of America, Τόμος 2

John MacGregor - 1847 - 1362 σελίδες
...again ; going through wiih the same process, in clarifying and draining, as before. " JOEL WOODWOBTH." stinking 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...

Commercial Review of the South and West: A Monthly Journal of Trade ..., Τόμος 2

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 372 σελίδες
...introduction into the country. Its use as applied to smoking was characterized in royal language as a custom " loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." Nor arc we without examples in our own country of attempts to fetter its...




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