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Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or, Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters ... - Page 34
by John Strang - 1856 - 599 pages
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Rural Sports

William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 820 pages
...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, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke, of the Pit that is bottomless!" Lives of this Class of MEN, and which at Twenty-Jive Pounds...
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The Leeds Correspondent, Volume 1

John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - 1815 - 308 pages
...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, nearest resembling the horrible stygian pit that is bottomless." As to the smoking of tobacco, it may be beneficial to persons of gross, phlegmatic,...
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A History of the United States Before the Revolution: With Some Account of ...

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 590 pages
...the following words: — ' 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 smoko of the pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 96 ; and in...
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A History of the United States Before the Revolution: With Some Account of ...

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 546 pages
...the following words: — ' 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 '.he pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 90 ; and...
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The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote, a coll ..., Volume 1

William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...use of this plant to be " 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." ORIGIN AND ANECDOTES OF VARIOUS IMPORTANT INVENTIONS. (Resumed...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 1

1822 - 430 pages
...be scorned anil contemned. A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to tho 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 !" . Shortly after the publication of the king's anathema against...
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The Catholic miscellany and monthly repository of information, Volume 8

1827 - 464 pages
...scorned and contemned: a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, and 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." IN the " Counterblaste to Tobacco," composed by our British SoloAs...
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Cautions to Young Persons Concerning Health: Containing the General Doctrine ...

Benjamin Waterhouse - 1822 - 70 pages
...COUNTER BLAST. — " It is 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 !" To conclude. The moral to be deduced from our whole Lecture,...
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The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet, Volume 1

1823 - 442 pages
...be scorned and contemned. Л 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 Г" - Shortly after the publication iifthtt king's, anathema against...
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Saturday Night: Comprising a Review of New Publications, Biography ..., Volume 1

1824 - 486 pages
...be scorned and condemned ; 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." If even this small specimen of our learned monarch's oratory,...
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