| Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...language of the day, taking tobacco, " is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." Many temporary ebullitions... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 1036 pages
...informs his loving subjects that -' it is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatcfull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs; and in the...resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bdltomlesse.' In 1604.this monarch endeavoured by means of heavy imposts to abolish its use in this... | |
| Asia - 1826 - 796 pages
...he concludes by pronouncing the practice of inhaling it " a cusióme loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to...the lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." But even during James's... | |
| Asia - 1826 - 780 pages
...pronouncing the practice of inhaling it " a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." But even during James's... | |
| Robert Macnish - Alcohol - 1828 - 204 pages
...which the following remarkable passage 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 Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1830 - 642 pages
...foreign civill nations, and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and contemned : A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull...to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse.... | |
| Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...which the following remarkable passage 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."... | |
| 1833 - 814 pages
...Counterblasts to Tobacco, in which he says that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull (=LQ^<Y 7 . hl2n b"K mL 1 e#눢ύ( bs3͛ O 7 Bx .r$ q L black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
| The Medical Quarterly Review VOL.II - 1834 - 522 pages
...among you to be scorned and contemned ; a custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." Notwithstanding all... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 692 pages
...strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned : a enstome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stiginn smoke of the pit that is bottomless." (4502.) Of the sincerity... | |
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