| Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes - 1840 - 168 pages
...antidote may be gathered from the follow* ing closing paragraph of his royal counterblast. " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." TRUE RELIGION. THE Christian knows that the only way to be happy is to... | |
| Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1841 - 598 pages
...plant; and v of smoking ; in vain did James I. assure his subjects that the - •• • custom was " loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful...thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The strong arm of the law opposed it ; the priest and the physician, the... | |
| John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...all foreign civil nations, and hy all strangers that come among you, to he scorned and contemned ; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the hrain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the hlack stinking fume thereof, nearest resemhling the horrihle... | |
| Charles Clay - Tobacco - 1842 - 34 pages
...Blasts of Tobacco," in which the following remarkable passage occurs, — "It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless"; and again, in the same publication, he observes, — " Tobacco is the... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1842 - 286 pages
...been tound in some great tobacco-takers, that aftei death were opened." He concludes with styling it " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible... | |
| George Dodd - Industries - 1843 - 574 pages
...the use of tobacco is " a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking...thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Leaving these two authorities to balance each other, we must be content... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...he handled the quill and spoiled paper. In his " Counterblast to Tobacco," 1603, he says : " it is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and the black stinking fume thereof, is the nearest resemblance to... | |
| George T. Fisher, William Alfred Delamotte, F. G. Delamotte - Smoking - 1845 - 104 pages
...royal folly — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking...thereof nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James the First wrote against tobacco — posterity must know it. It is... | |
| George Combe - Phrenology - 1845 - 498 pages
...remarkable passage occurs : — • It it * raw: loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, barm&J ~ ant of sympathy placed between us by feelings borriii Stygian smoke of the pit that is, bottomless.** L1.1 notwithstanding this regal and sacerdotal... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...he handled the quill and spoiled paper. In his " Counterblast to Tobacco," 1603, he says : " it is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and the black stinking fume thereof, is the nearest resemblance to... | |
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