 | Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...author informed his subjects that smoking, or to use the language of the day, taking tobacco, " is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose,...to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | 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.'... | |
 | Robert Macnish - Alcohol - 1828 - 210 pages
...remarkable passage occurs: — " It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull 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." But notwithstanding... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Explorers - 1830 - 522 pages
...wrote his celebrated " Counterblaste to Tobacco," in which he remarks that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull...the lungs ; and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless f;' whilst, at the same... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1830 - 642 pages
...among you to be scorned and contemned : 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, neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse. ' Such is the celebrated... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...remarkable passage occurs : — " It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Styginn smoke of the pit that is bottomless." But notwithstanding this... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...Smoking now rages like the Cholera, although he denounced the custom as " loathsome to the eye, hatefull 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." With this Leviathan in... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1851 - 738 pages
...loving subjects that, " smoking 13 a custom loathesome to the eye, and hatefull to the nose, harmeful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygean smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse." Finding... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...which he says that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull 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." At the same time, this... | |
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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 bottomlesse. 
