... 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. Geographical and statistical - Page 517by John Macgregor - 1847Full view - About this book
| Medicine - 1804 - 452 pages
...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, States, and Colonies... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 608 pages
...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, is, the necessity... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 442 pages
...loathsome lo 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 community, than by consulting... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 pages
...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 community, than by consulting... | |
| William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 pages
...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.1" * It is an accurate and momentous Fact, that during the Space, when Distilleries were... | |
| William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1813 - 820 pages
...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!" Lives of this Class of MEN, and which at Twenty-Jive Pounds per Annum, establishes,... | |
| William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...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." ORIGIN AND ANECDOTES OF VARIOUS IMPORTANT INVENTIONS. (Resumed from page 850 . . >... | |
| Benjamin Waterhouse - Alcohol - 1822 - 70 pages
...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 our whole Lecture, is the necessity of avoiding... | |
| 1822 - 430 pages
...loathsome to the eye, hateful to tho 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 !" . Shortly after the publication of the king's anathema against this Indian weed, a... | |
| 1827 - 464 pages
...to the eye, hateful to the nose, and 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 the " Counterblaste to Tobacco," composed by our British SoloAs a chequered board... | |
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