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ADVANTAGES alcohol amount annually appearance become beer blood body British brought called cause character classes Committee condition consequence consumption crime death disease drinkers DRINKING CUSTOMS drunk drunkard drunkenness effect England established evidence evil excitement experience extent fact five formed four frequently gallons give given glass habits half HISTORY hundred increased individual instance intemperance intoxicating liquors known labor less living London loss means meeting millions mind moderate months moral movement nature never night object observed occasion once organ Parliamentary perhaps period persons physical pledge poison population practice present principle produced public-house quantity received remarkable Report respectable result says shillings society spirits stomach strong drink taken teetotalers TEETOTALISM TEMP temperance thousand tion total abstinence town trade week whole wine
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Էջ 312 - So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Էջ 211 - Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Էջ 21 - They accordingly provided cellars and places strewed with straw, to which they conveyed those wretches who were overwhelmed with intoxication. In these dismal caverns they lay until they recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion ; thus consuming their health, and ruining their families, in hideous receptacles of the most filthy vice, resounding with riot, execration, and blasphemy.
Էջ 36 - I have long held in this kingdom have given me an opportunity to observe the original cause of most of the enormities that have been committed for the space of nearly twenty years; and by due observation I have found that if the murders...
Էջ 305 - Poison, child ! How could you think so ?" " Yes, poison, father, for not long ago, at an entertainment you gave to the lords of your court, after the guests had drunk a little of that liquor, I perceived all their heads were turned. They...
Էջ 210 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest yc die : if shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations : And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean...
Էջ 253 - Martin complains of no symptoms indicating any general derangement of the system, except an uneasy sensation, and a tenderness at the pit of the stomach, and some vertigo with dimness and yellowness of vision, on stooping down and rising...
Էջ 319 - ... bodily infirmity ; that we will not allow the use of them in our families, nor provide them for the entertainment of our friends, or for persons in our employment ; and that, in all suitable ways, we will discountenance the use of them in the community.
Էջ 267 - But time would fail me, were I to attempt an account of half the pathology of drunkenness. Dyspepsia, jaundice, emaciation, corpulence, dropsy, ulcers, rheumatism, gout, tremors, palpitation, hysteria, epilepsy, palsy, lethargy, apoplexy, melancholy, madness, delirium tremens, and premature old age, compose but a small part of the catalogue of diseases produced by ardent spirit.
Էջ 213 - Knowst thou th' importance of a soul immortal ? Behold this midnight glory : worlds on worlds ! Amazing pomp! redouble this amaze ; Ten thousand add ; add twice ten thousand more; Then weigh the whole; one soul out-weighs them all, And calls th' astonishing magnificence Of unintelligent creation poor.