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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. "
The Water Cure Journal and Hygienic Magazine - Page 329
1848
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Peter Parley's Illustrations of Commerce

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1849 - 164 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...Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The efforts of King James were of very little avail in restraining the use of tobacco ; and the settlers...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 2

Brand - 1849 - 544 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." If even this small specimen of our learned monarch's oratory, which seems well adapted to the understanding...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volume 3

Robert Kemp Philp - 432 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." THE WORK-TABLE FRIEND. HARLEQUIN HAND-SCREEN' IN NETTING. .We'- ;•> ' . — A very fini: ncttiug-needic,...
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The Constitution of Man

George Combe - 1850 - 452 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.'* But notwithstanding this regal and sacerdotal wrath, the plant extended itself far and wide, and is...
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Lectures on materia medica and therapeutics

John Brodhead Beck - 1851 - 684 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." He states also that " if he should invite the devil to dine with him, he would among other things give...
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Antiquated Spots Round Cheltenham

William T. Newenham - 1851 - 154 pages
...eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black st Hiking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Although all these dire invectives and anathemas partake, wondrously, of ignorance, superstition and...
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The Earth, Plants, and Man: Popular Pictures of Nature

Joakim Frederik Schouw - 1852 - 488 pages
...loathsome to the eye. hatefull to the nose, 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." It must be observed, however, that although James was really an enemy to tobacco, which is shown by...
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The Journal of Health, Volumes 1-2

1852 - 604 pages
...loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmlull 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.' It must be observed,' however, that although James was really an enemy to tobaeco, which is shown by...
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Substances used as food, as exemplified in the Great exhibition

Great exhibition, 1851 - 1853 - 374 pages
...loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, 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." It was a wonder, after this, that tobacco-smoking was ever able to hold its ground ; the custom, however,...
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Atlantis: Zeitschrift für Leben und Literatur in England und Amerika, Volume 1

1853 - 442 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. ' Nichts destoweniger nahm das Tabakrauchen wie in den übrigen Landern Europa's so auch in England...
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