 | Anti-fumo - 1854 - 64 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." This royal thunder failed to arrest the custom ; it continued,... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...be scorned and contemned A custom lothesome to the eye, hateful to the noae, 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 !" Such were some of the measures adopted in different countries... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pages
...hundred pounds per annum upon this "precious stinke," which his Majesty grotesquely stigmatises as " a custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 pages
...which he remarks that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian_sinoake of the pit that is bottomless§;" whilst, at the same time, he imposed a prohibitory... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - 388 pages
...from its pages : — " It « 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." A! early as 1624, Pope Urban VIII. issued a bull, excommunicating... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1856 - 788 pages
...forcibly described, as "a custom, loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, baneful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that U bottomless." The amount of money foolishly, nay, wickedly, expended for tobacco,... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 432 pages
...scorned and contemned, a custom both fulsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smelle of the pit that is bottomless." CHAP. IV. THE LAWS OF THE DCELLE. " Thoa art like one... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 462 pages
...scorned and contemned, a custom both fulsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smelle of the pit that is bottomless." CHAP. IV. THE LAWS OF THE DUELLE. " Thon art like one... | |
 | 1857 - 802 pages
...Counterblast, describes it as "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."' In many cases smoking is prohibited by masters, so that their... | |
 | 1857 - 520 pages
...describing its use as " a custom loathesome 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 !" The history of the custom thus dignified by the assaults of... | |
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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. 
