| James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 pages
...of tobacco." . ,; .... 0 .,• ..„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the community, than by consulting authors... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 442 pages
...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,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the community, than by consulting authors... | |
| William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1813 - 820 pages
...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,...horrible Stygian Smoke, of the Pit that is bottomless!" Lives of this Class of MEN, and which at Twenty-Jive Pounds per Annum, establishes, a Deficiency to... | |
| William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 pages
...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,...resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke, of the Pit that is bottomless.1" * It is an accurate and momentous Fact, that during the Space, when Distilleries were... | |
| John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - Mathematics - 1815 - 308 pages
...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,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian pit that is bottomless." As to the smoking of tobacco, it may be beneficial to persons of gross, phlegmatic,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 546 pages
...Portugal, for you, Madam Dingley.'* King James winds up his Counterblast in the following words: — ' A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of '.he pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 90 ; and in other... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 590 pages
...Portugal, for you, Madam Dingley.'* King James winds up his Counterblast in the following words: — ' A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoko of the pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 96 ; and in... | |
| William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...called the Counter-blast to Tobacco ; which he concludes by pronouncing the use of this plant to be " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." ORIGIN AND ANECDOTES OF VARIOUS IMPORTANT INVENTIONS. (Resumed from page 850 . . > WHIG AND TORY. 1.... | |
| Benjamin Waterhouse - Alcohol - 1822 - 70 pages
...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,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless !" To conclude. The moral to be deduced from our whole Lecture, is the necessity of avoiding all predisposing... | |
| 1822 - 430 pages
...strangers that come among you, to be scorned anil contemned. A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to tho nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" . Shortly after the publication of the king's anathema against this Indian weed, a divine being... | |
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