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... fact ought to be sufficient , to prevent the subject from being treated either with cold indifference , or contemptuous flippancy . The writer himself has been a total ab- stainer , from all such liquors , for about a year and a half ...
... fact ought to be sufficient , to prevent the subject from being treated either with cold indifference , or contemptuous flippancy . The writer himself has been a total ab- stainer , from all such liquors , for about a year and a half ...
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... fact , however , cannot be denied , that intemperate drinkers of intoxicating liquors , in every stage of the path of intemperance , from that which distinguishes the man who takes them only until they have produced a high degree of ...
... fact , however , cannot be denied , that intemperate drinkers of intoxicating liquors , in every stage of the path of intemperance , from that which distinguishes the man who takes them only until they have produced a high degree of ...
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... fact , that owing to the judgments of the Almighty , which befel the Israelites in the wilderness , but few of them enjoyed a more lengthened existence than that of 70 or 80 years . " For we are consumed , " he says , " by thine anger ...
... fact , that owing to the judgments of the Almighty , which befel the Israelites in the wilderness , but few of them enjoyed a more lengthened existence than that of 70 or 80 years . " For we are consumed , " he says , " by thine anger ...
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... facts were similar in all the other hospitals . " In Albany , where the cholera prevailed for several weeks , and was attended with a severe mortality , it was not known that more than two individuals , out of 5000 members of temperance ...
... facts were similar in all the other hospitals . " In Albany , where the cholera prevailed for several weeks , and was attended with a severe mortality , it was not known that more than two individuals , out of 5000 members of temperance ...
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... fact that the desire for intox- icating liquor increases with the use of it , unless counteracted by strong moral principle , which tends to render intemperance the most extravagant of vices . Among the lower classes of society ...
... fact that the desire for intox- icating liquor increases with the use of it , unless counteracted by strong moral principle , which tends to render intemperance the most extravagant of vices . Among the lower classes of society ...
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Page 62 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Page 184 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Page 13 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 198 - Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.
Page 63 - It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink; lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Page 21 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 27 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 198 - The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents : the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him : all nations shall serve. him.
Page 250 - For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink ; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Page 38 - Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh : For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.