 | 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,...dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.' Footeiana.... | |
 | James Robinson Nichols - 1881 - 310 pages
...universal. King James, in his celebrated "Counterblast to Tobacco," denounced the smoking of cigars as " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." Pope Urban VIII. issued a bull against it. The Russian Government... | |
 | 1881 - 852 pages
...century. King James I, of England issued a Co-unterblunte lo Tobacco, in which he described its use as " 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." All opposition,... | |
 | 1881 - 598 pages
...novelty, so 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 smoke of the pit which is bottomless."—... | |
 | 1876 - 296 pages
...Ural to Iceland, it is common among all conditions of men. In vain King James opposed its use as " A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and the black, stinking fame thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
 | 1882 - 780 pages
...attacked it through his " Counterblaste," in which he described smoking as "loathsome to the eye, hurtful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygiaa smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James's practice differed from his opinion, as he was... | |
 | John Todd - 1882 - 996 pages
...princely antidote may be gathered from the following closing paragraph of this royul Counterblast. " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black .... fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." All... | |
 | Charles Johnson - 1882 - 96 pages
...(irand Sultan Amurath IV., and the Grand Duke of Moscow. King James said : "It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs;'' and truer words were never uttered. Why did these rulers denounce it ! Because of its filthiness and wastefulness,... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 720 pages
...passages occurs : — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful tx> the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Ely. GEO. THOJIAH. * * * CABLYI.K AND LLANDOLHIH CANTLE... | |
 | 1883 - 784 pages
...Counterblaste of Tobacco," declaiming against it as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, hurtful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that « bottomless." Popes Urban... | |
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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. 
