... 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. Universal Exposition Paris - Page 7281891Full view - About this book
| 1858 - 786 pages
...become universal among the common people, a royal " counterblast to tobacco" was published against 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... | |
| 1858 - 784 pages
...become universal among the common people, a royal " counterblast to tobacco" was published against 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... | |
| W. J. Lake - 1858 - 182 pages
...paralysis and torpor, vomiting, weakness, loss of appetite and indigestion. Termed by King James I. " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." In England an average of nineteen ounces per person consumed annually... | |
| New England journalist - 1859 - 328 pages
...famous Counterblast of King James against tobacco, he concludes the subject in the following strain : " 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... | |
| John Lizars - 1859 - 144 pages
...novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received, and so grossly mistaken, in the right use thereof." "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... | |
| Ohio state medical society - 1859 - 206 pages
...inefficacy of law, evils are not increased. King James described the use of tobacco—" A custom loathesome 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... | |
| James Henry Clark - 1859 - 374 pages
...foolishly received, and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof? * * * * A custome loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that... | |
| English history - 1859 - 312 pages
...yourselves both in person and goods, and taking also thereby the notes and marks of van ity on you. A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and to the lungs dangerous." King Charles I. left six children: Charles, who succeeded him ; James... | |
| 1860 - 794 pages
...sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke 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 smoake of the pit that is... | |
| 1860 - 780 pages
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