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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. "
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge - Page 218
1892
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The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the ..., 2. köide

William Goodman - 1844 - 378 lehte
...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...
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Smoking and Smokers: An Antiquarian, Historical, Comical, Veritable, and ...

George T. Fisher, William Alfred Delamotte, F. G. Delamotte - 1845 - 104 lehte
...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...
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The Constitution of Man

George Combe - 1845 - 498 lehte
...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...
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The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the ..., 2. köide

William Goodman - 1845 - 440 lehte
...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...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 lehte
...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...
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Practical Elocution

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 lehte
...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...
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The Journal of Health and Monthly Miscellany, 1. köide

1846 - 408 lehte
...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...
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Geographical and statistical

John Macgregor - 1847 - 1442 lehte
...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...
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Dwight's American Magazine, 3. köide

Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 lehte
...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,"...
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The progress of America, 2. köide

John MacGregor - 1847 - 1362 lehte
...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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