 | Joel Hawes - 1861 - 72 pages
...to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." This might, perhaps, pass well enough in the time when it was published and coming from the pen of... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 656 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...horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" In those, however, as in other passages of his national epic, the American poet has only embodied... | |
 | George Cruikshank - 1862 - 166 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." " That is a literary curiosity," I exclaimed. " But possessing a great deal of good sense." " The king... | |
 | Clerk - 1862 - 136 pages
...hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof, nearly resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The practice of smoking has a strong tendency to render its victims emaciated and consumptive, their nerves... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 356 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." Medical writers have generally condemned the use of tobacco in the strongest language ; and, as Professor... | |
 | 1864 - 622 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." Every thing which is really and truly founded in nature and reason, however mysteriously, will ultimately... | |
 | Mary Eliza Rogers - 1865 - 238 pages
...loathesome to the eye, hateful 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." In addition to this, he issued in the course of his reign, a succession of royal proclamations in denunciation... | |
 | 1867 - 798 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." As early as 1624, Pope Urban VIII. issued a bull, excommunicating those who smoked in churches. The... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1867 - 392 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." As early as 1624, Pope Urban VIII. issued a bull, excommunicating those who smoked in churches. The... | |
 | Mayne Reid - 1868 - 352 pages
...be " loathsome to the eye, hurtful 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." Undoubtedly all these efforts to suppress its use assisted in creating the great and sudden popularity... | |
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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. 
