 | Chemistry - 1810 - 558 pages
...customc loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmeful to the brain, dangerous to the Iungs? and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian pit that is bottomless." King James mingled with his argument and his declamation, a plentiful seasoning... | |
 | 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 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
...yourselves to be wondered at by all- fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " a Custom loathsome...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
...yourselves to be wondered at by all fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " a Custom loathsome...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 Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - Mathematics - 1815 - 308 pages
...yourselves to be wondered at by all foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come amongst you, to be scorned and contemned;' a custom loathsome to...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian pit that is bottomless." As to the smoking of tobacco, it may be beneficial to persons of gross, phlegmatic,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 546 pages
...Portugal, for you, Madam Dingley.'* King James winds up his Counterblast in the following words: — ' A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of '.he pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 90 ; and in other... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 590 pages
...Portugal, for you, Madam Dingley.'* King James winds up his Counterblast in the following words: — ' A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoko of the pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 96 ; and in... | |
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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. 
