 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 616 pages
...discouraged the use of this vile weed. In vain king James assured his subjects, that the smoking of it was a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. Opposition made proselytes; and the united influence of fashion and habit... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Explorers - 1830 - 522 pages
...that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull 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 f;' whilst, at the same time, he imposed a prohibitory duty of... | |
 | Medicine - 1830 - 610 pages
..." Counter-Blast to Tohacco," which he winds up hy characterizing the use of this favourite plant as "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the hrain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the hlack stinking fumes thereof, nearest resemhling the horrihle... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 424 pages
...like the Cholera, although he denounced the custom as " loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." With this Leviathan in learning, we may couple the " silver-tongued" Sylvester, the learned Joshua,... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...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." But notwithstanding this regal and priestly wrath, the... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and, in the black stinking...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." At the same time, this monarch imposed a duty, intended to be a prohibitory one, of six shillings and... | |
 | Henry James Meller - 1834 - 158 pages
...scorned and contemned : a custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." What a pity it is, James never smoked ; instead of this... | |
 | Diet - 1835 - 240 pages
...he says that the smoking of it is " a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs ; and, in the...resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." In 1604, James the first endeavored, by means of heavy imposts, to abolish its use in... | |
 | Robert Macnish - Alcohol - 1835 - 256 pages
...occurs; — ««It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hatefull 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."* But notwithstanding this regal and sacerdotal wrath, the plant extended itself far and wide, and is... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pages
...a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose,harmfull to the braine,dangerous to the lun<is, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit thai is bottomless." But notwithstanding this regal and priestly wrath, the use of the plant extended... | |
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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. 
