Bioletti Pamphlet Collection on Temperance, Volume 61830 |
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... reason to believe , that the general calculation of four and a half gallons to each individual in the United States , will hold true of Connecticut ; consequently , that her population of 275,248 consumed annually 1,238,616 gallons ...
... reason to believe , that the general calculation of four and a half gallons to each individual in the United States , will hold true of Connecticut ; consequently , that her population of 275,248 consumed annually 1,238,616 gallons ...
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... reason , to their families , and to usefulness and respectability in society . The case of drunkards is no longer hopeless . Formerly a reformed drunkard was a very rare spectacle . If a wretched inebriate awoke to a sense of his ...
... reason , to their families , and to usefulness and respectability in society . The case of drunkards is no longer hopeless . Formerly a reformed drunkard was a very rare spectacle . If a wretched inebriate awoke to a sense of his ...
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... reason have you to suppose that any are so weaned from the love of ardent spirit here , that they will abstain from it when released ? I can have no reason to hope that any one will abstain when released , merely because he has been ...
... reason have you to suppose that any are so weaned from the love of ardent spirit here , that they will abstain from it when released ? I can have no reason to hope that any one will abstain when released , merely because he has been ...
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... reasons : 1st . We feel it our duty to unite in the Temperance Societies , be- cause they are a combination of all the sober part of community , of all religious parties and of no religious party , in a good cause . 2d Another reason ...
... reasons : 1st . We feel it our duty to unite in the Temperance Societies , be- cause they are a combination of all the sober part of community , of all religious parties and of no religious party , in a good cause . 2d Another reason ...
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... reason to thank God and take courage . Your Committee will not remark upon the almost universal com- plaint concerning professors of religion as an hindrance to this work of reform . They will rather drop a tear over this astonishing ...
... reason to thank God and take courage . Your Committee will not remark upon the almost universal com- plaint concerning professors of religion as an hindrance to this work of reform . They will rather drop a tear over this astonishing ...
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.