Bioletti Pamphlet Collection on Temperance, Volume 61830 |
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... principles , and our very liberties were fast fading away before the insidious but fell de- stroyer . As a remedy for ... principle of Entire AbstinenCE . Each member gave his pledge to use no distilled spirit , except in case of bodily ...
... principles , and our very liberties were fast fading away before the insidious but fell de- stroyer . As a remedy for ... principle of Entire AbstinenCE . Each member gave his pledge to use no distilled spirit , except in case of bodily ...
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... principle . They have also heard of some licensed retailer , in almost every town , who , from principle , has abandoned all traffic in an article so fraught with ruin to mankind . Of one , your Committee have heard , who has abandoned ...
... principle . They have also heard of some licensed retailer , in almost every town , who , from principle , has abandoned all traffic in an article so fraught with ruin to mankind . Of one , your Committee have heard , who has abandoned ...
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... principle of entire abstinence have come to the knowledge of your Committee . One of the most enterprising , skilful and successful mechanics in the State , who employs an hundred men on this principle , and has acted upon it for ten ...
... principle of entire abstinence have come to the knowledge of your Committee . One of the most enterprising , skilful and successful mechanics in the State , who employs an hundred men on this principle , and has acted upon it for ten ...
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... principle of entire abstinence , the only principle where he could stand for a day . On this unhappy class of your fellow beings it was apprehended by not a few , that the operation of your society would have an evil influ- ence ...
... principle of entire abstinence , the only principle where he could stand for a day . On this unhappy class of your fellow beings it was apprehended by not a few , that the operation of your society would have an evil influ- ence ...
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... principle at the commencement of the present year without any practical difficulty . This example will be of the more importance , if it should ultimately lead the overseers of the poor in every town to banish an article from their ...
... principle at the commencement of the present year without any practical difficulty . This example will be of the more importance , if it should ultimately lead the overseers of the poor in every town to banish an article from their ...
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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.