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Pagina 11
... period after their invention their very existence depends upon it , and were confined to the Apothecaries ' shop , that their stomachs require it to enable and used only as medicines . In the them to perform the necessary functions of ...
... period after their invention their very existence depends upon it , and were confined to the Apothecaries ' shop , that their stomachs require it to enable and used only as medicines . In the them to perform the necessary functions of ...
Pagina 16
... period . But purity and strength in which it is employed . until that period of his life when he The use of alcohol , in the form of ardent commenced his career as an author , and spirits , is more injurious and exciting than when his ...
... period . But purity and strength in which it is employed . until that period of his life when he The use of alcohol , in the form of ardent commenced his career as an author , and spirits , is more injurious and exciting than when his ...
Pagina 17
... period . The admission wines ; these by use and habit will not do , of this fact , however , as Mr. Poynder ob- they leave the stomach sick and mawkish ; serves , does not prove that there is less they must fly to stronger wines , and ...
... period . The admission wines ; these by use and habit will not do , of this fact , however , as Mr. Poynder ob- they leave the stomach sick and mawkish ; serves , does not prove that there is less they must fly to stronger wines , and ...
Pagina 19
... period , are recorded in the Old of the effects of intemperance on the Testament . These , however , rather present Assyrians , who , but for the event in striking examples of human frailty , than question , had every reasonable ...
... period , are recorded in the Old of the effects of intemperance on the Testament . These , however , rather present Assyrians , who , but for the event in striking examples of human frailty , than question , had every reasonable ...
Pagina 23
... period seem to have made feasts , Athenæus and Ælian inform us , that thirty except upon rare occasions . Plutarch , in of these bacchanalians died on the spot , and his banquet of seven wise men , says , the soon afterwards six more of ...
... period seem to have made feasts , Athenæus and Ælian inform us , that thirty except upon rare occasions . Plutarch , in of these bacchanalians died on the spot , and his banquet of seven wise men , says , the soon afterwards six more of ...
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Pagina 162 - Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere ; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Pagina 56 - But to my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
Pagina 20 - In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Pagina 360 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Pagina 203 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Pagina 20 - Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken : the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Pagina 19 - 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.
Pagina 111 - Pooly' or Parrot by; Nor shall our cups make any guilty men ; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning ; or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.
Pagina 260 - ... superinduced by the antecedent exhaustion of the party, arising from gross and habitual drunkenness. However criminal, in a moral point of view, such an indulgence is, and however justly a party may be responsible for his acts arising from it to Almighty God, human tribunals are generally restricted from punishing them, since they are not the acts of a reasonable being. Had the crime been committed while Drew was in a fit of intoxication, he would have been liable to be convicted of murder.
Pagina 236 - 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.