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... drunkard , now flushed and now deadly pale . They describe his trembling , palsied limbs . They describe his waning prosperity , his poverty , his despair . They describe his desolate , cheerless home , his cold hearth , his scanty ...
... drunkard , now flushed and now deadly pale . They describe his trembling , palsied limbs . They describe his waning prosperity , his poverty , his despair . They describe his desolate , cheerless home , his cold hearth , his scanty ...
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... drunkard , in the blight which falls on all the drunkard's joys . These outward evils , dreadful as they seem , are but faint types of the ruin within . We should see in them God's respect to his own image in the soul , his parental ...
... drunkard , in the blight which falls on all the drunkard's joys . These outward evils , dreadful as they seem , are but faint types of the ruin within . We should see in them God's respect to his own image in the soul , his parental ...
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... drunkard's countenance , I see a ruin which makes the cost of his support a grain of dust in the scale . I am not sorry that so- ciety is taxed for the drunkard . I would it were taxed more . I would the burden of sustaining him were so ...
... drunkard's countenance , I see a ruin which makes the cost of his support a grain of dust in the scale . I am not sorry that so- ciety is taxed for the drunkard . I would it were taxed more . I would the burden of sustaining him were so ...
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... drunkard carries into his family . But take away his own brutality , and how light- ened would be these miseries . We talk of Let the Let the rags his wife and children in rags . continue ; but suppose them to be the effects of an ...
... drunkard carries into his family . But take away his own brutality , and how light- ened would be these miseries . We talk of Let the Let the rags his wife and children in rags . continue ; but suppose them to be the effects of an ...
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... drunkard's wife ? It is not that he is poor , but that he is a drunkard . Instead of that bloated face , now distorted with passion , now robbed of every gleam of intelligence , if the wife could look on an affectionate coun- tenance ...
... drunkard's wife ? It is not that he is poor , but that he is a drunkard . Instead of that bloated face , now distorted with passion , now robbed of every gleam of intelligence , if the wife could look on an affectionate coun- tenance ...
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Page 9 - ... life, when he quenches reason and conscience, that he and all others should receive solemn, startling warning of the greatness of his guilt : that terrible outward calamities should bear witness to the inward ruin which he is working ; that the handwriting of judgment and woe on his countenance, form, and whole condition, should declare what a fearful thing it is for a man, God's rational offspring, to renounce his reason and become a brute.
Page 14 - Intemperance is to be pitied and abhorred for its own sake, much more than for its outward consequences. These consequences owe their chief bitterness to their criminal source. We speak of the miseries which the drunkard carries into his family. But take away his own brutality, and how lightened would be these miseries. We talk of his wife and children in rags. Let the rags continue ; but suppose them to be the effects of an innocent cause. Suppose the drunkard to have been a virtuous husband, and...