| Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 страници
...author informed his subjects that smoking, or to use the language of the day, taking tobacco, " is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose,...to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1824 - 330 страници
...prejudice than dignity, informs his loving subjects that " it is a custome loathsome to the eye,hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 1036 страници
...prejudice than dignity, informs his loving subjects that -' it is a custome loathsome to the eye, hatcfull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs; and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoake of the pit that is bdltomlesse.'... | |
| Robert Macnish - 1828 - 210 страници
...remarkable passage occurs: — " It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." But notwithstanding... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 страници
...wrote his celebrated " Counterblaste to Tobacco," in which he remarks that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull...the lungs ; and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless f;' whilst, at the same... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1830 - 642 страници
...among you to be scorned and contemned : A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse. ' Such is the celebrated... | |
| 1832 - 406 страници
...remarkable passage occurs : — " It is a custom loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Styginn smoke of the pit that is bottomless." But notwithstanding this... | |
| 1832 - 428 страници
...Smoking now rages like the Cholera, although he denounced the custom as " loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." With this Leviathan in... | |
| 1851 - 738 страници
...loving subjects that, " smoking 13 a custom loathesome to the eye, and hatefull to the nose, harmeful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygean smoake of the pit that is bottomlesse." Finding... | |
| 1833 - 310 страници
...which he says that the custom of smoking " is loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs ; and, in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." At the same time, this... | |
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