An Earnest Plea for the Reign of Temperance and Peace ... submitted to the visitors of the Great Exhibition, etcPeter Jackson, 1851 - 144 pages |
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Page xii - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations...
Page 79 - HAVE examined the Matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following REPORT:— YOUR Committee...
Page xiii - Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? "They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page xiii - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page xiii - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page xiii - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink [Rev.
Page 105 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Page 50 - So far from being calculated to assist the human body in enduring fatigue, I have always found that the strongest liquors were the most enervating, and this in whatever quantity they were consumed; for the daily use of spirits is an evil which retains its pernicious character through all its gradations ; indulged in at all, it can produce nothing better than a diluted or mitigated kind of mischief.
Page xxvii - Liquors should form part of the ordinary sustenance of man, particularly under circumstances of exposure to severe labour or to extremes of temperature '•* Or, on the other hand, is there reason for believing that such use of them is not sanctioned by the principles of science, or the results of practical observation?
Page ii - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the particular features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to the accomplishment of that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.