 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | George T. Fisher, William Alfred Delamotte, F. G. Delamotte - Smoking - 1845 - 104 pages
...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... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1845 - 498 pages
...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... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...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... | |
 | Medicine - 1846 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | John Macgregor - America - 1847 - 1442 pages
...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... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...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,"... | |
 | John MacGregor - America - 1847 - 1362 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
