 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pàgines
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of " tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathesome 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... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pàgines
...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,...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 - 1807 - 328 pàgines
...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,...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... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 508 pàgines
...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...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 - 1810 - 510 pàgines
...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...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 - 1815 - 308 pàgines
...nations, and by all strangers that come amongst you, to be scorned and contemned;' a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...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 - 1819 - 590 pàgines
...Madam Dingley.'* King James winds up his Counterblast in the following words: — ' A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...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... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pàgines
...nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and condemned; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian (moke of the pit that is bottomless." If even this small specimen of our learned monarch's oratory,... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1828 - 210 pàgines
...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 this regal and sacerdotal wrath, the plant... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 pàgines
...that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull 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 f;' whilst, at the same time, he imposed a prohibitory duty of... | |
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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 fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. 
