 | 1857 - 594 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 stygiau smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" The history of the custom thus dienified by the assaults... | |
 | 1858 - 786 pages
...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 is bottomless." The same monarch, King James, proposed as a bouquet for the devil,... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...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 is bottomless." The same monarch, King James, proposed as a bouquet for the devil,... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1859 - 354 pages
...been found in some great tobacco takers, that after death were opened. A custom loathsome to the eye, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Elsewhere his dislike to Raleigh peeps forth covertly in the... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1859 - 704 pages
...against them a ' Counterblast,' and pronounced the custom ' loathsome to the eye, 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.' Amurath IV., Sultan of Turkey, emulated his royal brother of... | |
 | New England journalist - 1859 - 328 pages
...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 is bottomless." This is strong, but we are not inclined to question a line of... | |
 | John Lizars - 1859 - 144 pages
...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 is bottomless." Vide " Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince James, by the... | |
 | 1859 - 690 pages
...alluded to, declares smoking to be a practice " loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." Not content with a mere... | |
 | Joseph Huntington Jones - 1860 - 322 pages
...First, the custom of smoking is anathematized as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, paineful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs; and in the...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." In the time of Elizabeth, an edict was published against its... | |
 | Joseph Huntington Jones - 1860 - 316 pages
...First, the custom of smoking is anathematized as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, paineful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs; and in the...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." In the time of Elizabeth, an edict was published against its... | |
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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. 
