 ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.  Now or never, by Charles A. Beach - Page 96by Mayne Reid - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Chemistry - 1810 - 558 pages
...customc loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmeful to the brain, dangerous to the Iungs? and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian pit that is bottomless." King James mingled with his argument and his declamation, a plentiful seasoning... | |
 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pages
...somewhat laughable. " The use of " tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathesome to the eye, " hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to "...black stinking fume thereof, " nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit " that is bottomless/' * Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Netherlands - 1807 - 328 pages
...is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." i Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Germany - 1807 - 334 pages
...is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " 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, *' neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless /" If even this small... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " 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, " neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless!" If even this small... | |
 | John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - Mathematics - 1815 - 308 pages
...strangers that come amongst you, to be scorned and contemned;' a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian pit that is bottomless." As to the smoking of tobacco, it may be beneficial to persons of gross, phlegmatic,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 546 pages
...James winds up his Counterblast in the following words: — ' A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the...thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of '.he pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 90 ; and in other... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 590 pages
...James winds up his Counterblast in the following words: — ' A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoko of the pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 96 ; and in... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...strangers that come among you, to be scorned and condemned; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian (moke of the pit that is bottomless." If even this small specimen of our learned monarch's oratory,... | |
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