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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. "
Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to ... - Page 220
de James Peller Malcolm - 1811
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Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting ...

Ohio state medical society - 1859 - 206 pages
...inefficacy of law, evils are not increased. King James described the use of tobacco—" A custom loathesome 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." Yet, "...
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Sight and hearing, how preserved, and how lost

James Henry Clark - 1859 - 374 pages
...foolishly received, and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof? * * * * A custome loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6

1860 - 794 pages
...sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." * The Popes Urban VIII....
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Tobacco, the Bane of the Times: Read, Think, be Wise

Joel Hawes - 1861 - 72 pages
...drunkenness, as a disabling (injuring) of both persons and goods, and in conclusion declares it to be a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."...
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Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York

American Institute of the City of New York - 1861 - 712 pages
...Notwithstanding King James used to say, " that it was hateful to the nose, loathsome to the eye, hurtful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black...stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible stygean smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Pope Urban, the Eighth, published a bull against its...
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What Put My Pipe Out, Or, Incidents in the Life of a Clergyman ...

George Cruikshank - 1862 - 166 pages
...by all foreign nations, and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and contemned. It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." " That...
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The clerk's instructor and manual

Clerk - 1862 - 136 pages
...Tobacco." The strength of the royal antidote may be gathered from the subjoined sentence : — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof, nearly resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The practice...
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Ethical and Physiological Inquiries: Chiefly Relative to Subjects of Popular ...

Alexander Hamilton Dana - 1862 - 320 pages
...King James' Counterblast was not extravagant in designating it as " a custom loathsome to the eyes, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible /Stygian] smoke of the pit that is bottomless."...
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The Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Manchester Unity

1862 - 542 pages
...description of its use by King Jamie: — " A custom loatbsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smonke of the pit that is bottomless." But it...
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Notes and Queries

1866 - 618 pages
...nations'and by all strangers that come among you, and be scorned, and contemned ; a custom both fulsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stigian . smelle of the pit that is bottomless." Such quotations as these are surely sufficient to...
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