 | 1804 - 452 pàgines
...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, harmful to the BRAIN, dangerous to the LUNGS ; and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 504 pàgines
...Virginia. To banish all." It was in vain that parliament discouraged the use of this vile weed. In Tain king James assured his subjects, that the smoking...Opposition made proselytes ; and the united influence <>!' fashion and habit extended the practice through the kingdom. See Chalmers, i. lit. 3 Chalmers,... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 516 pàgines
...Virginia. To banish all." It was in vain that parliament discouraged the use of this vile weed. In train king James assured his subjects, that the smoking...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 habit... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 pàgines
...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, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs; and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 pàgines
...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, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pàgines
...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, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 508 pàgines
...fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " 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, *' neerest resembling the horrible... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 510 pàgines
...fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " 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, " neerest resembling the horrible... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 440 pàgines
...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, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 454 pàgines
...of tobacco." . ,; .... 0 .,• ..„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " 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... | |
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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. 
