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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. "
Universal Exposition Paris - Page 728
1891
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 39

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...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 39

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...
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The book of object lessons, a teacher's manual

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...
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The Ramrod Broken: Or, The Bible, History, and Common Sense in Favor of the ...

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...
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The Use and Abuse of Tobacco

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...
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Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting ...

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...
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Sight and hearing, how preserved, and how lost

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...
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A short introduction to English history. School ser

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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6

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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6

1860 - 780 pages
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