 | 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... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...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...horrible stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless .'" II. Modern Geography, A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies ; with the Oceans,... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 pages
...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...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" To conclude. . The moral, to be deduced from oer whole Lecture, is, the necessity of avoiding all... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pages
...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 smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pages
...The use of " tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathesome 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 smoke of the pit " that is bottomless/' * Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 pages
...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 smoke of the pit that is bottomless." i Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 508 pages
...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 Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless /" If even this small... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 510 pages
...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 Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless!" If even this small... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 454 pages
...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...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the community, than by consulting authors... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 442 pages
...with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome lo the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the community, than by consulting authors... | |
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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. 
