 | John Lizars - 1859 - 144 strani
...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 the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian... | |
 | New England journalist - 1859 - 328 strani
...famous Counterblast of King James against tobacco, he concludes the subject in the following strain : " 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 Warner Barber - 1860 - 478 strani
...weed." In vain King James assured his subjects, that the custom of smoking it was loathsome to the eyes, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. Opposition made proselytes; and th« united influence of fashion and habit, extended the practice through the kingdom.* Tobacco was... | |
 | 1860 - 794 strani
...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, harmful! to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stygian... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1861 - 72 strani
...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, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible... | |
 | Clerk - 1862 - 136 strani
...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, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof, nearly resembling the horrible Stygian smoke... | |
 | George Cruikshank - 1862 - 166 strani
...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, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian... | |
 | Alexander Keith Johnston - 1862 - 328 strani
...introduced ; and in his well-known diatribe, King James I. calls it " a " filthy novelty, a custom hateful to the nose, " harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the " lungs." But the use of Tobacco for smoking, chewing, and snuff-taking, prevailed over eveiy obstacle, spreading... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 356 strani
...Among these books is that of James Stuart, King of England, who describes the smoking of tobacco as " 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... | |
 | 1864 - 622 strani
...different view of the prevalent practice, and wrote a "Oounterblaste to Tobacco," stigmatizing its use as " 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... | |
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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. 
