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" A custome lothsome 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 smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse. "
The Rehearsal: With Illustrations from Previous Plays, Etc - Page 14
by George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1895 - 136 pages
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Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the ...

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 :...
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Pharmacologia: Comprehending the Art of Prescribing Upon Fixed and ..., Volume 1

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...
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Pharmacologia, al, The history of medicinal substances. Ed. the 6th, corrected

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...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British ..., Part 6, Volume 22

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...
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Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign ..., Volume 22

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...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Ralegh with Some Account of the Period in ...

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...
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 37

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...
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The Medical Quarterly Review VOL.II

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...
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Nico[tiana]; Or, [The] Smoker's and Sn[uff-taker's] Companion: Containing ...

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."...
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Outlines of Botany: Including a General History of the Vegetable ..., Volume 2

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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