Speeches, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings: On Subjects Connected with Temperance and the Liquor TrafficJ. P. Jewett, 1849 - 200 páginas Contains several original poems by the author (an amusing collection) and an advertisement of Temperance Hotels and Eating Houses in Boston and Worcester. |
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... engaged in efforts to advance the temperance causé . With two or three exceptions , they are either letters or parts of letters addressed to gentlemen connected with the temperance press , and , though intended for publication , they ...
... engaged in efforts to advance the temperance causé . With two or three exceptions , they are either letters or parts of letters addressed to gentlemen connected with the temperance press , and , though intended for publication , they ...
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... engaged in transporting it to and fro , and presenting it to the lips of their neighbors and fellow- citizens . The columns of our public journals are filled with the most heart - rending details of this terrible system , with which ...
... engaged in transporting it to and fro , and presenting it to the lips of their neighbors and fellow- citizens . The columns of our public journals are filled with the most heart - rending details of this terrible system , with which ...
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... engaged in busi- ness on a small scale , as I am , and who has to trust to the labor of his own hands for the bread that is to feed his children , such things are a source of embarrassment . " Now , sir , the price of the rum that goes ...
... engaged in busi- ness on a small scale , as I am , and who has to trust to the labor of his own hands for the bread that is to feed his children , such things are a source of embarrassment . " Now , sir , the price of the rum that goes ...
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... engaged in any honest business , from him who occupies the sacred desk to the lad who blacks our boots in the hotel , has abundant occasion to execrate this system . The former would tell you that strong drink hardens the hearts of men ...
... engaged in any honest business , from him who occupies the sacred desk to the lad who blacks our boots in the hotel , has abundant occasion to execrate this system . The former would tell you that strong drink hardens the hearts of men ...
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... engaged . Such chaps were always " engaged " when I needed their service . Yet they were always ready to work for the rum - seller . They were not engaged when he called . No matter how unpleasant the service he wished them to perform ...
... engaged . Such chaps were always " engaged " when I needed their service . Yet they were always ready to work for the rum - seller . They were not engaged when he called . No matter how unpleasant the service he wished them to perform ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accursed alcoholic blessed Boston character cholera citizens cold Connecticut continued curse of intemperance death declare delirium tremens depraved disease drunkard drunkenness earth efforts employed engaged England evil eyes Faneuil Hall fellow-citizens fellow-men fire FRIEND KIMBALL friends of temperance fruits give grave grog-shop hand hear heart hope human individual influence intellect interests intoxicating drinks labor language license liquors Massachusetts mind mischief misery moral neighbor never opinion perance poison poor present President public house QUINCY HOUSE reform replied rum traffic rum-seller secure social affections society soul Springfield stand steamboat stimulants stomach street strong drink suffering suppose Switchel temperance cause terrible thousands tion tipplers town trade traffic in intoxicating traffic in strong truth unnatural appetite utter vice victims vile vile system village Washingtonian whig wife wretched
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Página 78 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 17 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : 'tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre...
Página 97 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf : Witches...
Página 17 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 153 - Shall tongues be mute, when deeds are wrought Which well might shame extremest hell ? Shall freemen lock the indignant thought? Shall Pity's bosom cease to swell ? Shall Honor bleed? — Shall Truth succumb? Shall pen, and press, and soul be dumb...
Página 190 - a principle is deeply implanted in the human breast, which is ever averse to compulsion and impatient of restraint. A dictatorial statute, with its pains and penalties, might, by operating upon the fears, make a few hypocrites, but it could never make a single convert...
Página 127 - Where murder, arson, rape, are brought to pass, With hell-broth vended at three cents a glass. And thus her hands that childless widow wrings, And thus that fratricidal felon swings, While the accessory before the fact Goes free, in goods and character intact. Look on yon alms-house, where from day to day The grave seems cheated of its lawful prey ; Mark well those squalid paupers, and declare What brought nineteen in twenty of them there. Could but the truth upon the canvas glow, The force of fancy...
Página 144 - Now, since the earth has closed o'er his remains, Turn o'er your book, and count your honest gains. How doth the account for his last week begin? — ' Monday, the twenty-fourth, one quart of gin ! ' A like amount for each succeeding day, Tells on the book, but wears his life away.
Página 128 - Atrophy should gather np his shroud, And half-choked Asthma wheeze his wrongs aloud; There pale Consumption by your side should stand, And tottering Palsy point with trembling hand ; Fierce Frenzy's haggard eye with fury glare, While Cholera should poison all the air. All these, and more, with Babel-like acclaims, Should cry to God and man their authors' names. And thus this scourge holds on its noisome way, To sicken, madden, poison, wound, and slay. Ay, thus it ever has gone on, and still, Till...