Bioletti Pamphlet Collection on Temperance, Volume 61830 |
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... better than dead , have been reported to your Com- mittee , by high Medical authority , as destroyed by ardent spirits . These are , one third of all our maniacs . Hundreds of individuals it had reduced , in this land of plenty , to the ...
... better than dead , have been reported to your Com- mittee , by high Medical authority , as destroyed by ardent spirits . These are , one third of all our maniacs . Hundreds of individuals it had reduced , in this land of plenty , to the ...
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... better satisfied with their business , have fewer bad debts , and have suffered nothing , as was apprehended , in the profits of their trade , and in their ability to support their families . Several taverners , in various parts of the ...
... better satisfied with their business , have fewer bad debts , and have suffered nothing , as was apprehended , in the profits of their trade , and in their ability to support their families . Several taverners , in various parts of the ...
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... better health ; and that it is unnecessary to sustain them under severe la- bor . Others will tell you that they rejoice that they have been arrest- ed in their career of vice , that they may become the subjects of the system of ...
... better health ; and that it is unnecessary to sustain them under severe la- bor . Others will tell you that they rejoice that they have been arrest- ed in their career of vice , that they may become the subjects of the system of ...
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... better . The Secretary alludes to a few victories of the monster we are dc- stroying . One young man , he says , has recently died of a delirium tremens . One woman laid down by the fire in a fit of intoxication , where her feet were so ...
... better . The Secretary alludes to a few victories of the monster we are dc- stroying . One young man , he says , has recently died of a delirium tremens . One woman laid down by the fire in a fit of intoxication , where her feet were so ...
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... better for it . Noank Society , formed January , 1832. Elder Roswell Burroughs , President ; 30 members . Jewitt City , Society formed November 28 , 1828. Doct . Lucius Tyler , President ; Rev. Seth Bliss , Secretary ; 135 members ; 63 ...
... better for it . Noank Society , formed January , 1832. Elder Roswell Burroughs , President ; 30 members . Jewitt City , Society formed November 28 , 1828. Doct . Lucius Tyler , President ; Rev. Seth Bliss , Secretary ; 135 members ; 63 ...
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Popular passages
Page 15 - If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it
Page 15 - 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, shall 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 16 - He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. Arise. O Lord ; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God ? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. IN the
Page 15 - color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 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 shah be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Page 11 - Avoid it; pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away." " Now," said John, " you see my orders forbid me going •with you. They are God's orders, and by his help I don't mean to break them.
Page 16 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, But that scaffold sways the future, And, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God, within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own.
Page 16 - an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil. 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. Woo to him that
Page 22 - Truths of all others the most awful and interesting are too often considered as so true that th'ey lose the power of truth, and lie bedridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Page 10 - Look not thon upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a
Page 15 - 21. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.