 | Reuben Dimond Mussey - Americana - 1836 - 76 pages
...drunkennesse ;" as " disabling both persons and goods ;" and in conclusion declares it to be "a custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful...the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...every day as a growing custom, though, as worthy King James in his " Counterblast" says, that " it is loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blaek^ stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
 | Edward Hazen - Industrial arts - 1836 - 330 pages
..." Counter-blast to Tobacco,'" published in 1603, occurs the following remarkable passage : " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain ; and, in the black fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is... | |
 | Thomas Colley Grattan - Netherlands - 1836 - 1132 pages
..."precious stinke, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, hurtful to the lungs, and1 in the black fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.'"* Karl Kreutzer was, however, as stupid an individual as one might meet even in the porter's lodge of... | |
 | Edward Hazen - Industrial arts - 1836 - 462 pages
...Counter-blast to Tobacco," published in 1603, occurs the following remarkable passage : " It is a (justom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain ; and, in the black fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is... | |
 | Herbert Mayo - Hygiene - 1838 - 360 pages
...head, produced disturbed and troubled sleep and headacheAccording to regal authority, smoking " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.'' — James the First's Counterblast to Tobacco. 78 III. QUANTITY OF FOOD. DIFFERENT quantities of nutriment... | |
 | 702 pages
..." It is a custom loathsome to the eye," (what would the West End exquisites of to-day say to that?) "hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black • * « fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygeian smoke of the pit that is bottomless"... | |
 | 1838 - 444 pages
...princely antidote may be gathered from the following closing paragraph of his royal counterblast. " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.''' Experienced people tell us that the habit of using tobacco, in any shape,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...rooted antipathy to the use of tobacco in any form, and closes his treatise by asserting that it is " d in 1610. J English Housewife, p. 11*, 113. §/*«* p. 118. cliantc braiiie, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible... | |
 | John Mather Austin - Conduct of life - 1839 - 496 pages
...gathered from the following closing paragraph of this royal counterblast : ' It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.' All experienced... | |
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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. 
