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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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Lectures on materia medica and therapeutics

John Brodhead Beck - 1851 - 684 lehte
...formal treatise against it, entitled a " Counter Blast to Tobacco," in which he says the use of it " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." He states also that " if he should invite the devil to dine with him, he would among other things give...
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Antiquated Spots Round Cheltenham

William T. Newenham - 1851 - 154 lehte
...Counterblaste to Tobacco," published 1603, the the following passage occurs : — " It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black st Hiking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."...
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The Journal of Health, 1–2. köide

1852 - 604 lehte
...you, to be scorned and contemned : a custome loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmlull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black...horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.' It must be observed,' however, that although James was really an enemy to tobaeco, which is shown by...
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The Earth, Plants, and Man: Popular Pictures of Nature

Joakim Frederik Schouw - 1852 - 488 lehte
...scorned and contemned : a custome 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." It must be observed, however, that although James was really an enemy to tobacco, which is shown by...
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True stories, from English history, by a mother, author of 'True stories ...

Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1852 - 422 lehte
...also thereby (look to it, ye that take snuff in profusion) the notes and marks of vanity upon you. A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs." Such was King James's opinion of the custom of smoking tobacco and taking snuff ; nor is it very remote...
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Atlantis: Zeitschrift für Leben und Literatur in England und Amerika, 1. köide

1853 - 442 lehte
...Strafpredigt dagegen erliess. In diesem Counterblast beschreibt Se. Majestät das Tabakrauchen als 'a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke, of the pit that is bottomless. ' Nichts destoweniger nahm das Tabakrauchen wie in den übrigen Landern Europa's so auch in England...
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Substances used as food, as exemplified in the Great exhibition

Great exhibition, 1851 - 1853 - 372 lehte
...tobacco-smoking. " It is a custome 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." It was a wonder, after this, that tobacco-smoking was ever able to hold its ground ; the custom, however,...
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The Smoker's Hand-book: Or A Dissuasive Against the Use of Tobacco

Anti-fumo - 1854 - 64 lehte
...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." This royal thunder failed to arrest the custom ; it continued, and there is reason to suppose it increased....
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O Tempora! O Mores! Or a Word to the Wise on the Use of Tobacco and Snuff

1854 - 114 lehte
...Slaste of Tobacco," in which the following remarkable passage occurs : — " It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless;" and again, in the same publication, he observes, " Tobacco is the lively image a:;d pattern of hell...
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, 1. köide

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 lehte
...that come among you to be scorned and contemned A custom lothesome to the eye, hateful to the noae, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs ; and...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" Such were some of the measures adopted in different countries to banish this pernicious weed, but...
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