| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 Seiten
...that come among you to be scorned and contemned A custom lothesome to the eye, hateful to the noae, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs ; and...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" Such were some of the measures adopted in different countries... | |
| James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1854 - 676 Seiten
...practice in any other part of the world — " A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." In Europe, from the... | |
| James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1855 - 388 Seiten
...the opinion of many, applies more justly than to the practice in any other part of the world — " A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." In Europe, from the... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 880 Seiten
...as we read it. "The use of tobacco," says his Majesty, " is a custom loathsome to the eyes, baleful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black reeking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - 388 Seiten
...subject, entitled "A Counterblaste to Tobacco." We quote the following from its pages : — " It « a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." A! early as 1624, Pope Urban VIII. issued a bull, excommunicating... | |
| Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 Seiten
...called — next thing to godliness. We would not declaim against it as did King James I, who said it was "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;" but we... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1856 - 790 Seiten
...appropriately and forcibly described, as "a custom, loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, baneful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the...fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that U bottomless." The amount of money foolishly, nay, wickedly, expended for tobacco,... | |
| Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 462 Seiten
...179 you, to be scorned and contemned, a custom both fulsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smelle of the pit that is bottomless." CHAP. IV. THE LAWS OF THE DUELLE. " Thon art like one... | |
| James Henry Clark - 1856 - 382 Seiten
...foolishly received, and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof? * * * * A custome loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."... | |
| Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 432 Seiten
...179 you, to be scorned and contemned, a custom both fulsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smelle of the pit that is bottomless." CHAP. IV. THE LAWS OF THE DCELLE. " Thoa art like one... | |
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