 | Adversaria - 1873 - 218 Seiten
...thin, only stump, shuffle, jig, or amble — none but a Spaniard can walk. THE COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO. A CUSTOM loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian... | |
 | 1874 - 344 Seiten
...of your mouths, and destroying, some gentlefolks £300 and some £400 a-year on this precious stink. A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." CHARLES I., SECOND SON OF JAMES I. AND ANXE OF DENMARK. Born at Dnnfermline, November 19, 1600 : ascended... | |
 | Sir George Duncan Gibb - 1874 - 474 Seiten
...persons will be disposed to indorse the concluding sentences of the King's opinion of the habit : — " A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible... | |
 | John Harvey Kellogg - 1875 - 288 Seiten
...pertinently than was done long ago in the closing sentence of King James' " Counterblast to Tobacco." " 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 fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1876 - 204 Seiten
...puff of the vilest smoke, since he had the unprincipled audacity to write these words: — "Smoking 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... | |
 | John Carrick Murray - 1876 - 134 Seiten
...all foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and contempted — a custom loathsome to the eye — hateful to the nose — harmful to the brain — dangerous to the lungs — and, in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrid... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 360 Seiten
...servant than by giving him a pipe of tobacco." The king concludes with 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... | |
 | Edward John Waring - 1879 - 522 Seiten
...all foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to 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... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 Seiten
...Counterblast, against the practice of smoking, then comparatively new. He calls it ' a practice or custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian... | |
 | 1880 - 670 Seiten
...kingdoms. King James I. of England issued a " Counterblaste to Tobacco," in which he described its use as "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." Likening the " fumes thereof to the horrible stygian smoke of the bottomless pit." The priests and... | |
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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. 
