 | 1896 - 726 pages
...loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the orgaine [brain], dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." If, after this display of royal indignation, stiff-necked ones still cast fond looks at the " emblem... | |
 | Ellis A. Davidson - 1869 - 138 pages
...loathsome 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." Notwithstanding such opposition, smoking, together with the use of snuff (which is powdered tobacco),... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 872 pages
...custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to tiw brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.' All opi>o8¡tion, however, was in vain. The use of T. increased, and has continued to increase to the... | |
 | Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, John C. Merriam, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1870 - 642 pages
...custom .oathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, aarmful 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... | |
 | 1871 - 668 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... | |
 | Thomas Bedford - 1872 - 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. THE ARRAIGNMENT AND EXECVTION Of THE LATE TRAITORS, WITH A RELATION OF THE OTHER TRAITORS, Which were executed... | |
 | 1872 - 332 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 !" and decorum. But should perversity withstand all the arguments adduced, we have yet one iu reserve... | |
 | Russell Thacher Trall - 1872 - 84 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." To which may be added the concluding verse of the description of tobacco and its votaries by Joshua... | |
 | Adversaria - 1873 - 218 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. — James I. THE GREATEST FOOLS. VOLTAIRE, when asked who were the greatest knaves in the world, replied,... | |
 | 1874 - 728 pages
...baneful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, reeking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Having brought forward evidence enough to convince the most skeptical that the use of tobacco is not... | |
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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. 
