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Pagina 2
... a deeper interest in each other than having a common cause of sorrow ; particularly if the sorrow be of such a nature that only they who have experienced its bitterness can fully sympathise with 2 FANNY LEE'S TESTIMONY :
... a deeper interest in each other than having a common cause of sorrow ; particularly if the sorrow be of such a nature that only they who have experienced its bitterness can fully sympathise with 2 FANNY LEE'S TESTIMONY :
Pagina 6
... cause , yet with a vague and horrible dread upon his heart . And he was followed , all too quickly , by some of that busy crowd , bearing on a shutter , as if she were already dead , the senseless body of his wife . Yes ; the once ...
... cause , yet with a vague and horrible dread upon his heart . And he was followed , all too quickly , by some of that busy crowd , bearing on a shutter , as if she were already dead , the senseless body of his wife . Yes ; the once ...
Pagina 9
... cause of the vice . Even my father , though he never partook of wine him- self , had no notion of excluding it from our table when Walter was with us , and as he never , in our presence , became visibly intoxicated , my father appeared ...
... cause of the vice . Even my father , though he never partook of wine him- self , had no notion of excluding it from our table when Walter was with us , and as he never , in our presence , became visibly intoxicated , my father appeared ...
Pagina 12
... cause had aroused me to a keener sense of the evils from which only the utter abandonment of the one thing they spring from can keep men or women safe . I had previously made up my mind to the task of urging him to give up the use of ...
... cause had aroused me to a keener sense of the evils from which only the utter abandonment of the one thing they spring from can keep men or women safe . I had previously made up my mind to the task of urging him to give up the use of ...
Pagina 22
... It was only to turn with new horror from the spectacle , and with a certainty of the truth that caused her to wring her hands in wild distress as she cried aloud- " O my poor dear missis , and her daughter 22 FANNY LEE'S TESTIMONY :
... It was only to turn with new horror from the spectacle , and with a certainty of the truth that caused her to wring her hands in wild distress as she cried aloud- " O my poor dear missis , and her daughter 22 FANNY LEE'S TESTIMONY :
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abstinence anguish asked beauty believe better boys called cause child comfort Cottage darling dear Mary dearest death delight distress dreadful drink drunkard earnest Edinburgh Ellen evil exclaimed eyes face Fairfield Fanny father fear feel felt Frank Hamer Frederick Kelly gentle GERALD MASSEY girl glass grief hand happy Harry Mills heard heart hope husband intemperance intoxicated JOHN HEYWOOD Kelly kind knew lady Laura little Allie look Maister Lister Mary Lister Mary's matter mind misery Miss Lister mother mysen Nelly never Newburn night once passed perhaps pleasant pleasure poor present promise regarded replied Robert Turner seemed shewed society soon sorrow suffer sure Susan Susy sweet teetotal teetotaller tell temperance Temperance Band tender thing thought told tone took trembling truth Walter wife William Lister wine wish words Yorkshire young youth
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Pagina 79 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Pagina 132 - Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth! Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
Pagina 356 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Pagina 38 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Pagina 61 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence. But health consists with temperance alone : And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Pagina 143 - 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.
Pagina 110 - Beauty is my Love, Yet in her earnest face There's such a world of tenderness, She needs no other grace.
Pagina 132 - Men make resolves, and pass into decrees The motions of the mind! with how much ease, In such resolves, doth passion make a flaw, And bring to nothing what was raised to law! In empire young, scarce warm on Gotham's throne, The dangers and the sweets of...
Pagina 192 - Hail, social life ! into thy pleasing bounds Again I come to pay the common stock, My share of service, and, in glad return, To taste thy comforts, thy protected joys.
Pagina 324 - Good men have said That sometimes God leaves sinners to their sin,— He has left me to mine, and I am changed; My worst part is insurgent, and my will Is weak .and powerless as a trembling king When millions rise up hungry.