| John Ayrton Paris - 1824 - 330 pàgines
...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." In 1604 this monarch... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 1036 pàgines
...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.' In 1604.this monarch... | |
| Robert Macnish - 1828 - 204 pàgines
...Counterblaste to Tobacco," in which the following 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."... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 pàgines
...his description of it, as " loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the sight, harmefull to the orgaine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless."* Such, however, is the attachment of all classes of... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1830 - 642 pàgines
...strangers that come 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.... | |
| 1832 - 406 pàgines
...Counterblaste to Tobacco,' in which the following 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."... | |
| 1833 - 814 pàgines
...his celebrated book called Counterblasts to Tobacco, in which he says that the custom of smoking " is loathsome 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 smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
| The Medical Quarterly Review VOL.II - 1834 - 522 pàgines
...among you to be scorned and contemned ; a custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." Notwithstanding all this, we strongly suspect that if the worthy... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 692 pàgines
...civill nations ; nnd by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned : a enstome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull...stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stiginn smoke of the pit that is bottomless." (4502.) Of the sincerity of the royal anti-tobacconist... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 1050 pàgines
...among you, to be scorned and contemned : a cmtome loathsome to the eye, hateful! to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the...resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." (4502.) Of the sincerity of the royal anti-tobacconist there can be no doubt, if any reliance... | |
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