 | 384 σελίδες
...to education and refinement, this "filthy custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless" as our king James has it, is still countenanced by us.... | |
 | John Macgregor - 1847 - 1440 σελίδες
...again ; going through with the same process, in clarifying and draining, as before. " JOEL WOODWOBTH." Stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that U bottomless.' The strong arm of the law opposed it ; the priest and the physician, the moralist and... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 600 σελίδες
...concludes with styling it " 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." Notwithstanding such opposition, smoking, together with the use of snuff, has spread not only through... | |
 | 1848 - 1292 σελίδες
...death were opened. A custom loathsome to the eye, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, uud iu the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The monarch, not content with writing against this favourite luxury, endeavoured to abolish its use... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - 1848 - 100 σελίδες
...baneful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." He also represents " its black stinking fumes," as nearest resembling the " horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." And again, as if to show still more strongly, his utter contempt of the vile plant, he says — " Some... | |
 | Brand - 1849 - 544 σελίδες
...by 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,...small specimen of our learned monarch's oratory, which seems well adapted to the understanding of old women, does not prevail upon them all to break in pieces... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1849 - 164 σελίδες
...he published a pamphlet entitled a " Counterblast to Tobacco," in which he stigmatizes smoking as " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The efforts of King James were of very little avail in restraining the use of tobacco ; and the settlers... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 432 σελίδες
...proclamations and publications ; but they were of little avail. " Smoking," he says, in one of his works. " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs ; and, in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." THE WORK-TABLE... | |
 | George Combe - 1850 - 452 σελίδες
...famous ' Counterblaste to Tobacco,' in which the following remarkable passage occurs : — ' It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.'* But notwithstanding this regal and sacerdotal wrath, the plant extended itself far and wide, and is... | |
 | John Brodhead Beck - 1851 - 684 σελίδες
...formal treatise against it, entitled a " Counter Blast to Tobacco," in which he says the use of it " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." He states also that " if he should invite the devil to dine with him, he would among other things give... | |
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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. 
