 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1867 - 392 pages
...subject, entitled "A Counterblaste to Tobacco." We quote the following from its pages : — " 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... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1870 - 332 pages
...treatise, against it, which he called "The Counterblaste to Tobacco," and in which he described it as " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." Asparagus, artichokes, cauliflowers, and a variety of other vegetables were also introduced into England... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 872 pages
...ccutury. King Jam» I. of England issued a Coitnterhlaete to '1 ubaceo, in which he described its use as ' a 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 the horrible... | |
 | Harriette Noel-Thatcher - 1871 - 120 pages
...of its injurious effects."— John Skelton, Esq., MD •f Arthur Trevelyan, Esq., JP J " Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye ; hateful to the nose ; harmful to the brain (p. 15) ; dangerous to the lungs (p. 62) ; and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembles... | |
 | 1871 - 668 pages
...different view of the prevalent practice, and wrote a "Counterblaste to Tobacco," stigmatizing its use as " 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... | |
 | Thomas Bedford - 1872 - 798 pages
...by 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... | |
 | Russell Thacher Trall - 1872 - 84 pages
...pertinently than wa3 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... | |
 | 1872 - 332 pages
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice, he closes with this royal counter bbist: " 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... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 312 pages
...practice, that he wrote a book called ' The Counterblast to Tobacco, ' in which he described its use as '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 resembling the horrible Stygian smoke... | |
 | Aaron Stevens Hayward - 1873 - 252 pages
...gives great offense to persons of delicate and unperverted sensibility. King James said of it, " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs." John Josselyn says of tobacco, although himself a lover of it, that " immoderately... | |
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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. 
