 | 1833 - 310 pages
...that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and, in the black stinking...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." At the same time, this monarch imposed a duty, intended to be a prohibitory one, of six shillings and... | |
 | Henry James Meller - 1834 - 158 pages
...scorned and contemned : a custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." What a pity it is, James never smoked ; instead of this... | |
 | Diet - 1835 - 240 pages
...he says that the smoking of it is " a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs ; and, in the...resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." In 1604, James the first endeavored, by means of heavy imposts, to abolish its use in... | |
 | Robert Macnish - Alcohol - 1835 - 256 pages
...occurs; — ««It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black stinking...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."* But notwithstanding this regal and sacerdotal wrath, the plant extended itself far and wide, and is... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pages
...a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose,harmfull to the braine,dangerous to the lun<is, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit thai is bottomless." But notwithstanding this regal and priestly wrath, the use of the plant extended... | |
 | John Todd - Conduct of life - 1835 - 414 pages
...closing paragraph of this royal Counterblast. " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose. harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygeian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." All experienced... | |
 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blaek^ stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." But what is all this to the shrewd fellow who now sat beside me, who seemed, with no little pleasure,... | |
 | Edward Hazen - Industrial arts - 1836 - 462 pages
...It is a (justom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain ; and, in the black fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." 4. Pope Urban VIII. excommunicated those who took tobacco in churches ; and Queen Elizabeth also prohibited... | |
 | Thomas Colley Grattan - Netherlands - 1836 - 1132 pages
..."precious stinke, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, hurtful to the lungs, and1 in the black fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.'"* Karl Kreutzer was, however, as stupid an individual as one might meet even in the porter's lodge of... | |
 | Reuben Dimond Mussey - Americana - 1836 - 76 pages
...goods ;" and in conclusion declares it to be "a custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
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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. 
