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... evil , in so short a compass . It exhibits its woes and sorrows , contentions and babblings , and wounds and redness of eyes ; its smiling deceptions in the beginning , and serpent - bite in the end ; the helplessness of its victims ...
... evil , in so short a compass . It exhibits its woes and sorrows , contentions and babblings , and wounds and redness of eyes ; its smiling deceptions in the beginning , and serpent - bite in the end ; the helplessness of its victims ...
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... evil , as not to shorten his days by what he may call the prudent use of ardent spirits . But we approach now a state of experience , in which it is supposed generally that there is some criminal intemperance . I mean when the empire of ...
... evil , as not to shorten his days by what he may call the prudent use of ardent spirits . But we approach now a state of experience , in which it is supposed generally that there is some criminal intemperance . I mean when the empire of ...
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... evil . Here , those who have no stated employment loiter away the day for a few potations of rum , and here , those who have finished the toils of the day meet to spend a vacant hour ; none content to be lookers on all drink , and none ...
... evil . Here , those who have no stated employment loiter away the day for a few potations of rum , and here , those who have finished the toils of the day meet to spend a vacant hour ; none content to be lookers on all drink , and none ...
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... evil habit , there are many who drink to excess only on particular days , such as days for military exhibition , the anniversary of our independence , the birth - day of Washington , Christ- mas , new years ' day , election , and others ...
... evil habit , there are many who drink to excess only on particular days , such as days for military exhibition , the anniversary of our independence , the birth - day of Washington , Christ- mas , new years ' day , election , and others ...
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... evil which demands a remedy . And what can be done to stop its ravages and rescue its victims ? This is not the place to say all that belongs to this part of the subject , but we cannot close without saying by anticipation a few things ...
... evil which demands a remedy . And what can be done to stop its ravages and rescue its victims ? This is not the place to say all that belongs to this part of the subject , but we cannot close without saying by anticipation a few things ...
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Page 5 - At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shall be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Page 75 - Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil 1 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
Page 89 - Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also...
Page 5 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 6 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Page 61 - Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 41 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 9 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Page 83 - But these evils are as real, as if the stone did cry out of the wall, and the beam answered it — as real, as if day and night, wailings were heard in every part of the dwelling — and blood and skeletons were seen upon every wall — as real, as if the ghostly forms of departed victims, flitted about the ship as she passed...
Page 61 - Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.