 | 1804 - 452 oldal
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice, he closes with this royal COUNTER-BLAST : " It is a custom, loathsome to the EYE, hateful to the NOSE,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless .'" II. Modern Geography, A Description of the... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 516 oldal
...discouraged the use of this vile weed. In train king James assured his subjects, that the smoking of it was a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dan* gerous to the lungs. Opposition made proselytes ; and the united influence of fashion and... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 oldal
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." i Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 oldal
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 oldal
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice,, he closes with this royal counter blast : — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" To conclude. . The moral, to be deduced from... | |
 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 oldal
...extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of " tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathesome to the eye, " hateful to the nose, harmful to the...black stinking fume thereof, " nearest resembling the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit " that is bottomless/' * Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 508 oldal
...making yourselves to be wondered at by all fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " a Custom...the " Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, *' neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless /" If even this small... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 510 oldal
...making yourselves to be wondered at by all- fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " a Custom...the " Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, " neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless!" If even this small... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 454 oldal
...of tobacco." . ,; .... 0 .,• ..„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 440 oldal
...of her fair hand, a pipe of tobacco." The The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the... | |
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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. 
