 | Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 pages
...hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, 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 may surely be allowed to say that it is not charming to the senses. We have seen ladies smoking... | |
 | 1857 - 520 pages
...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...stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" The history of the custom thus dignified by the assaults of royalty, and against certain uses of which... | |
 | 1857 - 802 pages
...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...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."' In many cases smoking is prohibited by masters, so that their workers can only gratify thrir appetite... | |
 | 1858 - 786 pages
..." 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...Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The same monarch, King James, proposed as a bouquet for the devil, a loin of pork, and a poll of ling and... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
..." 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...Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The same monarch, King James, proposed as a bouquet for the devil, a loin of pork, and a poll of ling and... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1859 - 354 pages
...were opened. A custom loathsome to the eye, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Elsewhere his dislike to Raleigh peeps forth covertly in the following passage : — " Now the corrupted... | |
 | John Lizars - 1859 - 144 pages
...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...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Vide " Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince James, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain,"... | |
 | New England journalist - 1859 - 308 pages
...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...horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." This is strong, but we are not inclined to question a line of its accuracy. We do not advise any one... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1859 - 704 pages
...pronounced the custom ' loathsome to the eye, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.' Amurath IV., Sultan of Turkey, emulated his royal brother of England ; and Pope Urban VIII., in 1624,... | |
 | James Henry Clark - 1859 - 374 pages
...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." The modern plan of building houses with the parlor windows to the floor, unless the light... | |
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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. 
