| Medicine - 1804 - 452 pages
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice, he closes with this royal COUNTER-BLAST : " It is a custom, loathsome to the EYE, hateful to the NOSE,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless .'" II. Modern Geography, A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms,... | |
| Abiel Holmes - America - 1805 - 516 pages
...discouraged the use of this vile weed. In train king James assured his subjects, that the smoking of it was a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dan* gerous to the lungs. Opposition made proselytes ; and the united influence of fashion and... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 608 pages
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice,, he closes with this royal counter blast : — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" To conclude. . The moral, to be deduced from oer whole Lecture,... | |
| Sir John Carr - Germany - 1807 - 334 pages
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
| Sir John Carr - Netherlands - 1807 - 328 pages
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." i Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
| sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pages
...extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of " tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathesome to the eye, " hateful to the nose, harmful to the...black stinking fume thereof, " nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit " that is bottomless/' * Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman... | |
| John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...of Vanity upon you ; by the Custom thereof " making yourselves to be wondered at by all- fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among...the " Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, " neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless!" If even this small... | |
| John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...Notes of Vanity upon you ; by the Custom thereof " making yourselves to be wondered at by all fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among...the " Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, *' neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless /" If even this small... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 pages
...of tobacco." . ,; .... 0 .,• ..„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - Costume - 1811 - 440 pages
...of her fair hand, a pipe of tobacco." The The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the... | |
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