 | Sidney Lanier - English poetry - 1902 - 466 pages
...words strong enough. It winds up: " A custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." Yet in spite of the kingly displeasure which did not even stop... | |
 | Caxton Club - Book clubs (Bookselling) - 1908 - 164 pages
...concluding with this thunderclap: "A custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigean smoke of the pit that is bottomeless." The original edition of this ponderous diatribe of the... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - Colombia - 1910 - 510 pages
...Counterblaste to Tobacco King James concludes bis argument against the use of the weed as follows: — "A custome loathsome to the eye, hateful! to the nose,...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." The Works of (he Most High and Mightie Prince James, by the... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - South America - 1910 - 512 pages
...the use of the weed as follows : — "A custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless*. " '/'.'•• Works of (he Most High and llightie Prince James,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1904 - 1036 pages
...characterizes the use of tobacco thus : "A custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and In the...fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." Lanier relates an incident illustrating mankind's Instinctive... | |
 | Kate Stephens - American newspapers - 1916 - 346 pages
...stinking torment." Tobacco-smoking, declared King James, is "a custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." "Such is the force of that naturall Self-love in every one of... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - Books and reading - 1920 - 288 pages
...ever perpetrated by an English king: " A custome lothsome to the eye, hateful to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." The struggle went on. In 1621, during a Commons debate, two... | |
 | Chicago Natural History Museum - Anthropology - 1924 - 540 pages
...among you, to be scorned and contemned. A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse." In 1616 the Counterblaste was reprinted in Bishop Montagu's... | |
 | Nicolaas Zwager - Literary landmarks - 1926 - 276 pages
...11-264. 4) supra, p. 87 & 99. 6) op cit., p. 26. loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to "the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is boltomlesse. ') The enemies of Tobacco liked to connect it with Hell and the... | |
 | American essays - 1927 - 878 pages
...forth, was of opinion that smoking was 'a custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.' Without bothering Commons or Lords he put a tariff of 'Six... | |
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A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse. 
