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... indulgence , has , from age to age , been suffered to roll on , until with its accumulated energies , it threatens to inundate the world with wretchedness and wo . The opera tions of Temperance Societies , fortunately for mankind , have ...
... indulgence , has , from age to age , been suffered to roll on , until with its accumulated energies , it threatens to inundate the world with wretchedness and wo . The opera tions of Temperance Societies , fortunately for mankind , have ...
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... indulgence have , in all ages of the world , been variously defined . In a primeval state , man had few wants . His occupations were simple in their character and influence . The produce of the field , and the fruit of the trees yielded ...
... indulgence have , in all ages of the world , been variously defined . In a primeval state , man had few wants . His occupations were simple in their character and influence . The produce of the field , and the fruit of the trees yielded ...
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... indulgence is altogether acquired . Entire nations are known to have existed for ages in a state of comparatively superior health , comfort , and hap- piness , without the aid of intoxicating liquors . * When first offered to the ...
... indulgence is altogether acquired . Entire nations are known to have existed for ages in a state of comparatively superior health , comfort , and hap- piness , without the aid of intoxicating liquors . * When first offered to the ...
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... indulgence . The history of the nations of antiquity , and in particular of the Greeks and Romans , demonstrates the truth of this statement . The effects of strong drink were known to the ancients as inimical to freedom and national ...
... indulgence . The history of the nations of antiquity , and in particular of the Greeks and Romans , demonstrates the truth of this statement . The effects of strong drink were known to the ancients as inimical to freedom and national ...
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... indulgence is altogether acquired . Entire nations are known to have existed for ages in a state of comparatively superior health , comfort , and hap- piness , without the aid of intoxicating liquors . * When first offered to the ...
... indulgence is altogether acquired . Entire nations are known to have existed for ages in a state of comparatively superior health , comfort , and hap- piness , without the aid of intoxicating liquors . * When first offered to the ...
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Page 196 - Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich.
Page 181 - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 7 - 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.
Page 7 - 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.
Page 191 - And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins ; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind,; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 192 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Page 195 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 66 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these; Some sunk to Beasts, find pleasure end in pain; Some swell'd to Gods, confess ev'n Virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all.
Page 188 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you; therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Page 141 - 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.