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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. "
A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the ... - Página 46
por Sir John Carr - 1807 - 301 páginas
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The Philosophy of Living

Herbert Mayo - 1838 - 360 páginas
...the head, produced disturbed and troubled sleep and headacheAccording to regal authority, smoking " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.'' — James the First's Counterblast to Tobacco....
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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...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The strong arm of the law opposed it ; the priest...
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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,...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless"; and again, in the same publication, he observes,...
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Popular cyclopaedia of natural science (by W.B. Carpenter).

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1842 - 286 páginas
...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 Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Notwithstanding such opposition, smoking, together...
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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 fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Leaving these two authorities to balance each...
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The Constitution of Man

George Combe - 1845 - 498 páginas
...remarkable passage occurs : — • It it * raw: loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, barm&J ~ ant of sympathy placed between us by feelings borriii Stygian smoke of the pit that is, bottomless.** L1.1 notwithstanding this regal and sacerdotal...
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Smoking and Smokers: An Antiquarian, Historical, Comical, Veritable, and ...

George T. Fisher, William Alfred Delamotte, F. G. Delamotte - 1845 - 104 páginas
...royal folly — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James the First wrote against tobacco — posterity...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 páginas
...counter-blast against smoking and chewing tobacco, in the following just and strong language : " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygean smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The venerable Dr. Waterhouse, of Cambridge,...
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Practical Elocution

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 páginas
...counter-blast against smoking and chewing tobacco, in the following just and strong language : " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygean smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The venerable Dr. Waterhouse, of Cambridge,...
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The Mechanic's organ, or, Journal for young men and women [afterw.] Voice of ...

384 páginas
...to education and refinement, this "filthy custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless" as our king James has it, is still countenanced...
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