 | 1804 - 452 pages
...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 pages
...use of this vile weed. In Tain king James assured his subjects, that the smoking of it was a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. Opposition made proselytes ; and the united influence <>!' fashion and habit... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 pages
...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 - 334 pages
...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 - 328 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 568 pages
...Foreign 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, 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. 
