 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...eye, hateful to the noae, 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 !" Such were some of the measures adopted in different countries to banish this pernicious weed, but... | |
 | Anti-fumo - 1854 - 64 pages
...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." This royal thunder failed to arrest the custom ; it continued, and there is reason to suppose it increased.... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - 388 pages
...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." A! early as 1624, Pope Urban VIII. issued a bull, excommunicating those who smoked in churches. The... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Henry Clark - 1856 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1856 - 790 pages
...eye, hateful to the nose, baneful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that U bottomless." The amount of money foolishly, nay, wickedly, expended for tobacco, is not only enormous,... | |
 | 1857 - 520 pages
...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 history of the custom thus dignified by the assaults of royalty, and against certain uses of... | |
 | 1857 - 802 pages
...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."' In many cases smoking is prohibited by masters, so that their workers can only gratify thrir appetite... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...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 same monarch, King James, proposed as a bouquet for the devil, a loin of pork, and a poll of ling... | |
 | 1858 - 786 pages
...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 same monarch, King James, proposed as a bouquet for the devil, a loin of pork, and a poll of ling... | |
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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. 
