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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. "
The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote, a coll. by W. Oxberry - Página 168
editado por - 1822
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The Student's Manual: Designed, by Specific Directions, to Aid in Forming ...

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...
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A second series of useful hints for labourers; selected from the ...

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...
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Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register ..., Volumen5

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...horrible 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...
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Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the ..., Volumen2

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...
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Extracts and Recollections of Two Lectures on the Evil Effects Arising from ...

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...
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Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register, Volumen5

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...
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Popular cyclopaedia of natural science (by W.B. Carpenter).

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...
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Days at the Factories: Or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain ...

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...
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The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the ..., Volumen2

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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The Ladies' Repository, Volumen4

1844 - 398 páginas
...hateful to the noae, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blaek stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless;" but we may surely be allowed to say that it is not eharming to the senses. We have Been ladies smoking—young...
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