Our national viceScottish Temperance League, 1858 - 171 էջ |
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Էջ 10
... public - house or drinks whisky . ' He looked queer ; but I just turned on my heel and left him . Next nicht he cam ' tae me , and asked a word at the door , and put into my hand that teetotal ticket hang- ing up there ; and he has kept ...
... public - house or drinks whisky . ' He looked queer ; but I just turned on my heel and left him . Next nicht he cam ' tae me , and asked a word at the door , and put into my hand that teetotal ticket hang- ing up there ; and he has kept ...
Էջ 22
... public - houses , and 225 beer - houses , many of them open by night as well as day . About £ 140,000 per annum is spent in Bolton in intoxicating drinks , and not less than £ 100,000 of this is received from the working- classes . We ...
... public - houses , and 225 beer - houses , many of them open by night as well as day . About £ 140,000 per annum is spent in Bolton in intoxicating drinks , and not less than £ 100,000 of this is received from the working- classes . We ...
Էջ 24
... public - house double the amount . Mr. Symon tells us of a lady , who , finding that a promising girl had been removed from school , and sent to work for 2s . 6d . a - week , went to the parents to expostulate with them , and was told ...
... public - house double the amount . Mr. Symon tells us of a lady , who , finding that a promising girl had been removed from school , and sent to work for 2s . 6d . a - week , went to the parents to expostulate with them , and was told ...
Էջ 35
... public - house , and the Sabbath mid - day dram , do not a little to blunt the understanding and deaden the affec- tions , and beget that drowsiness so much at variance with a profitable hearing of the word . Now , who can doubt that an ...
... public - house , and the Sabbath mid - day dram , do not a little to blunt the understanding and deaden the affec- tions , and beget that drowsiness so much at variance with a profitable hearing of the word . Now , who can doubt that an ...
Էջ 40
... house of God , and you met any of the hundred thousand men who are engaged in making liquor , going in their working - dress to the malt - kiln , the brew - house ... public sentiment , then , be unequivocal in their condemnation , and the ...
... house of God , and you met any of the hundred thousand men who are engaged in making liquor , going in their working - dress to the malt - kiln , the brew - house ... public sentiment , then , be unequivocal in their condemnation , and the ...
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Էջ 109 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Էջ 56 - But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings tease him: Death comes, wi' fearless eye he sees him; Wi' bluidy hand a welcome gies him : An' when he fa's, His latest draught o' breathin lea'es him In faint huzzas.
Էջ 112 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Էջ 161 - IT IS TRUE, I CANNOT PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLOWING POISON; GAIN-SEEKING AND CORRUPT MEN WILL, FOR PROFIT AND SENSUALITY, DEFEAT MY WISHES ; BUT NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO DERIVE A REVENUE FROM THE VICE AND MISERY OF MY PEOPLE.
Էջ 113 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Էջ 5 - Shakspeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin, to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Էջ 78 - ... he once covered his tongue and throat as far as he could reach with Cayenne pepper, in order to appreciate the 'delicious coldness of claret in all its glory
Էջ 150 - I wonder, Bill, whether it is true what they say of heaven being so happy — whether, now, it can be happier than sitting in the public, over a good jug of ale, with a fiddle going? I don't know a pleasure as comes up to that.
Էջ 120 - The more to work their will. Then to the mill they forced him straight, Where, as they bruised his bones, The miller swore to murder him Betwixt a pair of stones. The last time when they took him up, They served him worse than that, For with hot scalding liquor store, They washed him in a vat.
Էջ 107 - It is as the case of a mound of a reservoir: if this mound has in one place been broken, whatever care has been taken to make the repaired part as strong as possible, the probability is that if it give way again, it will be in that place.