| 1804 - 452 pagine
...of this practice, he closes with this royal COUNTER-BLAST : " 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 fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 pagine
...composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is 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 horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 pagine
...this practice,, he closes with this royal counter blast : — " 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 fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pagine
...composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is 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 horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
| sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pagine
...composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of " tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathesome 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 horrid Stygian smoke of the pit " that is bottomless/'... | |
| John Brand - 1810 - 508 pagine
...all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " 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 Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless... | |
| John Brand - 1810 - 510 pagine
...all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " 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 Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless!"... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 440 pagine
...tobacco." The The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " 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."... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 454 pagine
.....„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " 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."... | |
| William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 820 pagine
...by all Strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; 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!"... | |
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