 | Medicine - 1804 - 452 pages
...COUNTER-BLAST : " It is 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 .'" II. Modern Geography, A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms,... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 594 pages
...counter blast : — " It is 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 !" To conclude. . The moral, to be deduced from oer whole Lecture,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Netherlands - 1807 - 328 pages
...of tobacco," he says, " is 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 horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." i Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pages
...tobacco," he says, " is a 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 the horrid Stygian smoke of the pit " that is bottomless." Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Germany - 1807 - 334 pages
...of tobacco," he says, " is 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 horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - Costume - 1811 - 440 pages
...pronouncing the use of tobacco, " 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." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 442 pages
...pronouncing the use of tobacco, " 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." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 pages
...pronouncing the use of tobacco, " 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." It is impossible to give a better idea of the manners of the... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 pages
...be scorned and contemned ; 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 !" 112 is necessary to Health. To the STATE, indeed, it creates... | |
 | John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - Mathematics - 1815 - 308 pages
...be scorned and contemned;' 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 pit that is bottomless." As to the smoking of tobacco, it may be beneficial to persons of gross, phlegmatic,... | |
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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. 
