| Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...smoking, or to use the language of the day, taking tobacco, " is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to...resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." Many temporary ebullitions of spleen of this monarch against Tobacco are on record :... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - Materia medica - 1824 - 330 pages
...prejudice than dignity, informs his loving subjects that " it is a custome loathsome to the eye,hatefull to the nose, harmefull 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." In 1604 this monarch... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 1036 pages
...prejudice than dignity, informs his loving subjects that -' it is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatcfull to the nose, harmefull 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 bdltomlesse.' In 1604.this monarch... | |
| Asia - 1826 - 780 pages
...pronouncing the practice of inhaling it " a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the...resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." But even during James's life, some writers were not afraid to speak in behalf of this... | |
| Asia - 1826 - 796 pages
...pronouncing the practice of inhaling it " a cusiĆ³me loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the...resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." But even during James's life, some writers were not afraid to speak in behalf of this... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Explorers - 1830 - 522 pages
...Counterblaste to Tobacco," in 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 black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless... | |
| Naval art and science - 1868 - 746 pages
...work, the king tells his '"loving subjects' that smoking is a custom loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and the black stinking fumes thereof are nearest resembling the horrible stygean smoke of the pit that... | |
| The Medical Quarterly Review VOL.II - 1834 - 522 pages
...nations, and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and contemned ; a custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmefull to the...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." Notwithstanding all this, we strongly suspect that if the worthy... | |
| Henry James Meller - 1834 - 158 pages
...nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be 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."... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 692 pages
...among you, to be scorned and contemned : a enstome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the...stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stiginn smoke of the pit that is bottomless." (4502.) Of the sincerity of the royal anti-tobacconist... | |
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