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Pagina 3
... truth ? My mother perished the victim of intemperance . My father , heart - broken by grief on her account , died in the prime of life , and left me , his only child , desolate in the world . Let me recall , very briefly , some of the ...
... truth ? My mother perished the victim of intemperance . My father , heart - broken by grief on her account , died in the prime of life , and left me , his only child , desolate in the world . Let me recall , very briefly , some of the ...
Pagina 5
... truth forced itself by slow degrees upon my poor father's mind , that the peerless wife he had possessed was being transformed into a coarse and sensual woman the once gentle mother of his child into a being wholly unfitted to guide ...
... truth forced itself by slow degrees upon my poor father's mind , that the peerless wife he had possessed was being transformed into a coarse and sensual woman the once gentle mother of his child into a being wholly unfitted to guide ...
Pagina 7
... truth , I loved with all the earnestness of an impassioned nature . Walter Percy was the orphan son of one who had been the dear friend of my father in early life . He was studying for the law in my native town , and for his father's ...
... truth , I loved with all the earnestness of an impassioned nature . Walter Percy was the orphan son of one who had been the dear friend of my father in early life . He was studying for the law in my native town , and for his father's ...
Pagina 19
... truth , fast becoming a misanthrope ; but Mary saved me . And though I did not hope for any future of personal domestic happiness , I have been able to sympathise in all her pleasures and griefs , and to exert myself in some humble ...
... truth , fast becoming a misanthrope ; but Mary saved me . And though I did not hope for any future of personal domestic happiness , I have been able to sympathise in all her pleasures and griefs , and to exert myself in some humble ...
Pagina 22
... 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 :
... 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.