Anti-Bacchus: An Essay on the Evils Connected with the Use of Intoxicating Drinks ...Scofield and Voorhies, 1840 - 360 pages |
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... amount of capital was invested and greater profits were realized , than in supplying the means of intemperance . Distillers , importers , wholesale dealers , grocers , taverners , victuallers , and dramsell- ers , constituted no ...
... amount of capital was invested and greater profits were realized , than in supplying the means of intemperance . Distillers , importers , wholesale dealers , grocers , taverners , victuallers , and dramsell- ers , constituted no ...
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... amount for England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , for the last year only ? -One's heart sickens at the thought . And if , instead of one year , we go back for a century , and exa- mine the Newgate Calendar , the criminal records of ...
... amount for England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , for the last year only ? -One's heart sickens at the thought . And if , instead of one year , we go back for a century , and exa- mine the Newgate Calendar , the criminal records of ...
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... imperfect parallel . In speaking of the amount of life that has been wantonly sac- rificed by intoxication , we must not forget the disease and pre- mature dissolution that all medical men and physiologists agree in MURDERS . 39.
... imperfect parallel . In speaking of the amount of life that has been wantonly sac- rificed by intoxication , we must not forget the disease and pre- mature dissolution that all medical men and physiologists agree in MURDERS . 39.
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... amount of misery and crime , that cries , " touch not , taste not , handle not . " Paul uttered these exhortations concerning " things which perish in their using ; " much more , then , does it behoove us to apply them to those drinks ...
... amount of misery and crime , that cries , " touch not , taste not , handle not . " Paul uttered these exhortations concerning " things which perish in their using ; " much more , then , does it behoove us to apply them to those drinks ...
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... amount of crime in 1812 , proving that in the short distance of twenty years the offences and committals of a single year had nearly doubled . By another calculation for ten years ending 1834 , we find from parliamentary returns , that ...
... amount of crime in 1812 , proving that in the short distance of twenty years the offences and committals of a single year had nearly doubled . By another calculation for ten years ending 1834 , we find from parliamentary returns , that ...
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Page 293 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Page 41 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 88 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 120 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Page 340 - There is no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus.
Page 270 - It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink; lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Page 39 - The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Page 284 - 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 287 - 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: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Page 130 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit ; they shall not plant, and another eat ; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.