 | John William Carleton - 1858 - 710 páginas
..." It is a custom loathsome to the eye," (what would the West End exquisites of to-day say to that?) "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" (of... | |
 | John Todd - 1839 - 416 páginas
...princely antidote may be gathered from the following closing paragraph of this royal Counterblast. " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brdin, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygeian... | |
 | Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes - 1840 - 168 páginas
...antidote may be gathered from the follow* ing closing paragraph of his royal counterblast. " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." TRUE RELIGION. THE Christian knows that the only way to be happy is to... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1841 - 598 páginas
...plant; and v of smoking ; in vain did James I. assure his subjects that the - •• • custom was " loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful...Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The strong arm of the law opposed it ; the priest and the physician, the mofrom this circumstance it acquired... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - 356 páginas
...all foreign civil nations, and hy all strangers that come among you, to he scorned and contemned ; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the hrain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the hlack stinking fume thereof, nearest resemhling the horrihle... | |
 | Charles Clay - 1842 - 34 páginas
...Blasts of Tobacco," in which the following remarkable passage occurs, — "It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless"; and again, in the same publication, he observes, — " Tobacco is the lively image arid pattern of... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1841 - 440 páginas
...eye, hateful to the nose, harm fii! to the brain, dangerous to the lungs and in the black Blinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The strong arm of the law opposed it ; the priest and the physician, the moralist and the philanthropist... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1842 - 286 páginas
...been tound in some great tobacco-takers, that aftei death were opened." He concludes with styling it " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible... | |
 | George Dodd - 1843 - 574 páginas
...the use of tobacco is " a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful 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." Leaving these two authorities to balance each other, we must be content to treat the matter simply... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 páginas
...he handled the quill and spoiled paper. In his " Counterblast to Tobacco," 1603, he says : " it is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and the black stinking fume thereof, is the nearest resemblance to... | |
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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. 
