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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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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 39

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...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 39

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...
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Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant 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...
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The Use and Abuse of Tobacco

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,"...
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The Ramrod Broken: Or, The Bible, History, and Common Sense in Favor of the ...

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...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 54

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,...
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Sight and hearing, how preserved, and how lost

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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Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting ...

Ohio state medical society - 1859 - 206 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." Yet, " in vain King James opposed it by his counterblast to tobacco; in vain Pope Urban the Eighth...
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Man, Moral and Physical: Or, The Influence of Health and Disease on ...

Joseph Huntington Jones - 1860 - 316 pages
..."loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, paineful 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." In the time of Elizabeth, an edict was published against its use for fear lest England should become...
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Man, Moral and Physical: Or, The Influence of Health and Disease on ...

Joseph Huntington Jones - 1860 - 322 pages
..."loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, paineful 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." In the time of Elizabeth, an edict was published against its use for fear lest England should become...
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