 | 1810 - 558 页
...customc loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmeful to the brain, dangerous to the Iungs? and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian pit that is bottomless." King James mingled with his argument and his declamation, a plentiful seasoning... | |
 | 1804 - 452 页
...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,...horrible stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless .'" II. Modern Geography, A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies ; with the Oceans,... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 516 页
...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 Sinclair - 1807 - 594 页
...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,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" To conclude. . The moral, to be deduced from oer whole Lecture, is, the necessity of avoiding all... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 页
...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 页
...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 - 538 页
...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 页
...fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " a Custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the " Nose,...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 页
...fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " a Custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the " Nose,...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 页
...of tobacco." . ,; .... 0 .,• ..„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the community, than by consulting authors... | |
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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. 
