 | John Harvey Kellogg - 1875 - 288 pages
...was done long ago in the closing sentence of King James' " Counterblast to Tobacco." " 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 fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1876 - 204 pages
...vilest smoke, since he had the unprincipled audacity to write these words: — "Smoking 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... | |
 | John Carrick Murray - 1876 - 134 pages
...foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and contempted — 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 horrid... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 502 pages
...by giving him a pipe of tobacco." 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... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 pages
...Counterblast, against the practice of smoking, then comparatively new. He calls it ' a practice or 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... | |
 | Edward John Waring - 1879 - 522 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... | |
 | 1880 - 670 pages
...James I. of England issued a " Counterblaste to Tobacco," in which he described its use as "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." Likening the " fumes thereof to the horrible stygian smoke of the bottomless... | |
 | James Miller - 1880 - 334 pages
...basely grounded, so foolishly received, and so grossly mistaken, in the right use thereof." "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... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1881 - 924 pages
...yourselves both in person and goods, and taking also thereby the notes and marks of vanity on you. A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and to the lungs dangerous." Tea was first brought into Europe by the Dutch in 1G10, and its use was introduced... | |
 | 1881 - 598 pages
...basely grounded, so foolishly received, and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof? A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in 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. 
