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Pagina 48
... evil we must entirely remove the cause . That cause people believed to be , weakness of mind , inability to resist temptation , in short , anything rather than the drink itself . Mary was one of the few who looked beyond the mere ...
... evil we must entirely remove the cause . That cause people believed to be , weakness of mind , inability to resist temptation , in short , anything rather than the drink itself . Mary was one of the few who looked beyond the mere ...
Pagina 50
... evil thing that has lost to me , for ever , a once good and tender husband , and robbed my children of a father ; but still as a matter of hospitality it seems necessary to have some- thing of the kind in the house . " " It only seems ...
... evil thing that has lost to me , for ever , a once good and tender husband , and robbed my children of a father ; but still as a matter of hospitality it seems necessary to have some- thing of the kind in the house . " " It only seems ...
Pagina 76
... evil passions aroused by the exposure of her wretched husband . As she passed out of sight , he staggered into the inn , and I could not but imagine the misery and strife that would surely follow his return home . There was another ...
... evil passions aroused by the exposure of her wretched husband . As she passed out of sight , he staggered into the inn , and I could not but imagine the misery and strife that would surely follow his return home . There was another ...
Pagina 77
... evil may be traced to one thing as its source ; one thing , which in reality is wholly unnecessary to any man's well - being , and might be banished from the land at once with unspeakable advantage ! " Many more illustrations of the evil ...
... evil may be traced to one thing as its source ; one thing , which in reality is wholly unnecessary to any man's well - being , and might be banished from the land at once with unspeakable advantage ! " Many more illustrations of the evil ...
Pagina 171
... evil thing . His good qualities were allowed to be many , and had they not been counter- acted by this one fault , he would , at one time , have been promoted in his master's concern to a partnership in the business . Sobriety was made ...
... evil thing . His good qualities were allowed to be many , and had they not been counter- acted by this one fault , he would , at one time , have been promoted in his master's concern to a partnership in the business . Sobriety was made ...
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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.