| 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, "... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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