Bioletti Pamphlet Collection on Temperance, Volume 61830 |
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... never felt the temptation so strong as to be induced to commit crime , ( thus punishable , ) except when under the influence of liquor . " For the prosecution of offenders , whose crimes could be traced to In- temperance , the able ...
... never felt the temptation so strong as to be induced to commit crime , ( thus punishable , ) except when under the influence of liquor . " For the prosecution of offenders , whose crimes could be traced to In- temperance , the able ...
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... never been introduced , In the letter referred to from Capt . Pillsbury , your Com- mittee are informed that not a single practical evil has resulted from entire abstinence , while its effects upon the health , strength , activity ...
... never been introduced , In the letter referred to from Capt . Pillsbury , your Com- mittee are informed that not a single practical evil has resulted from entire abstinence , while its effects upon the health , strength , activity ...
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... never be relaxed while a wife in the land is tor- mented by a drunken husband , or a mother is brought by a drunken son with sorrow to the grave . Your Committee are aware that it has been affirmed that the scheme of entire abstinence ...
... never be relaxed while a wife in the land is tor- mented by a drunken husband , or a mother is brought by a drunken son with sorrow to the grave . Your Committee are aware that it has been affirmed that the scheme of entire abstinence ...
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... never known a single instance of having under my care , during the whole of that period , one who did not make use of that soul - destroying stuff , and some have acknowledged to me with tears , that they had never felt the temptation ...
... never known a single instance of having under my care , during the whole of that period , one who did not make use of that soul - destroying stuff , and some have acknowledged to me with tears , that they had never felt the temptation ...
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... never in 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 ...
... never in 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 ...
Common terms and phrases
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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.