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... legislation ; is echoed on the executes the laws of the land . There is not on earth , a more sublime and elevated spectacle , for example , than the firm and inflexible bench of justice , the Supreme Court of the United States ; or ...
... legislation ; is echoed on the executes the laws of the land . There is not on earth , a more sublime and elevated spectacle , for example , than the firm and inflexible bench of justice , the Supreme Court of the United States ; or ...
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... legislation . They adhered to it ; they acted on it ; they insisted on it as indispensable to their rights . When they could no longer secure it by fair and just representation ; when the British people claimed the right of taxing them ...
... legislation . They adhered to it ; they acted on it ; they insisted on it as indispensable to their rights . When they could no longer secure it by fair and just representation ; when the British people claimed the right of taxing them ...
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... legislative hall , can be qualified to take large views of the constitution , and of the country , but the man of temperance ? I know that an unnatural fire is often kin- dled in a man's soul by the aid of stimulus . I know that a man ...
... legislative hall , can be qualified to take large views of the constitution , and of the country , but the man of temperance ? I know that an unnatural fire is often kin- dled in a man's soul by the aid of stimulus . I know that a man ...
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... legislation ; into our courts of justice ; into our colleges ; and into our pulpits , an ene- my which sought to destroy the nation , which had seized with a giant's grasp the pillars of the temple of liberty . Already had it laid in ...
... legislation ; into our courts of justice ; into our colleges ; and into our pulpits , an ene- my which sought to destroy the nation , which had seized with a giant's grasp the pillars of the temple of liberty . Already had it laid in ...
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... legislation , must be all combined . Every man who loves his country's welfare and the Church of God , must utter his sentiments in the ears of his fellow men , and exert his influence , whatever it may be , on the side of tem- perance ...
... legislation , must be all combined . Every man who loves his country's welfare and the Church of God , must utter his sentiments in the ears of his fellow men , and exert his influence , whatever it may be , on the side of tem- perance ...
Common terms and phrases
ALBERT BARNES alcoholic alms-houses annually ardent spirits blessed Christian Church Committee commonwealth Convention county Temperance Society court crime curse death deemed delirium tremens dram shop drunkard effect employment engaged enterprise evil expense fact fathers fee simple fellow citizens friends of Temperance grave happiness Harrisburg honor houses hundred influence intemperance intoxicating drinks intoxicating liquors John Jonadab justice Justin Edwards labor land legislation Legislature liberty license liquor system Massachusetts Mayor mechanic meetings moral nation Nazarites NEAL DOW organization paid a dollar patron pauperism perance person Philadelphia pledge poison Portland principle promote Rechabites regard Resolved retail ruin secure sell Sons of Temperance strong drink tavern temperance cause temperance organizations thousand tion total abstinence town traffic in ardent traffic in rum traffic is entirely vice violation virtue virtuous Washingtonian movement wine woes
Popular passages
Page 21 - 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, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Page 21 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page 3 - He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Page 11 - 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 10 - 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 2 - 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 9 - 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 11 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink ; that continue until night, till wine inflame them...
Page 14 - We consider the voluntary enslaving of one part of the human race by another as a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature, as utterly inconsistent with the law of God, which requires us to love our neighbor as ourselves, and as totally irreconcilable with the spirit and principles of the gospel of Christ, which enjoin that "all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.
Page 12 - It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak.