| Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw - Antiques & Collectibles - 2007 - 372 pages
...your lungs, smoking destroys your precarious balance! Tis 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 bottomlesse." Sericulture in the colony,... | |
| Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1853 - 404 pages
...among you to be scorned and contemned. A custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful! 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."* If his Majesty's statement... | |
| Ireland - 1854 - 800 pages
...used as food by many, what else is it ? It appears that "this custome, loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof almost resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless,''... | |
| 906 pages
...was at sea ? He also wrote the Counterblaste to Tobacco : " A custom lothsome to the eye, hatefull 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 bottomeless... | |
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