| Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 516 pagina’s
...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 - 334 pagina’s
...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 Carr - 1807 - 328 pagina’s
...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 - 538 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...Notes of Vanity upon you ; by the Custom thereof " making yourselves to be wondered at by all fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among...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 pagina’s
...of Vanity upon you ; by the Custom thereof " making yourselves to be wondered at by all- fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among...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 Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - 1815 - 308 pagina’s
...making yourselves to be wondered at by all foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come amongst you, to be scorned and contemned;' a custom loathsome...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian pit that is bottomless." As to the smoking of tobacco, it may be beneficial to persons of gross, phlegmatic,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 590 pagina’s
...Portugal, for you, Madam Dingley.'* King James winds up his Counterblast in the following words: — ' A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoko of the pit that is bottomless.' Works, p. 222. * Works, by Scott, vol. ii. pp. 25. 96 ; and in... | |
| Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pagina’s
...by all foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and condemned; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian (moke of the pit that is bottomless." If even this small specimen of our learned monarch's oratory,... | |
| Robert Macnish - 1828 - 210 pagina’s
...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 this regal and sacerdotal wrath, the plant... | |
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