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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... minds of its readers an undying hatred of a wicked system , which contributes , more than any other evil influence tolerated among us , to deprave and ruin our countrymen , and to disgrace and burden society . Although the author has no ...
... minds of its readers an undying hatred of a wicked system , which contributes , more than any other evil influence tolerated among us , to deprave and ruin our countrymen , and to disgrace and burden society . Although the author has no ...
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... minds of my fellow - men the convictions of my own understanding in relation to the prevailing sin and miseries of intemperance , I have sought to vary the mode of instruction from time to time , and adapt it to the character and ...
... minds of my fellow - men the convictions of my own understanding in relation to the prevailing sin and miseries of intemperance , I have sought to vary the mode of instruction from time to time , and adapt it to the character and ...
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... minds with- out due credit . It is proper , therefore , that I should , in self - defence , declare that every illustration employed in the discourses , which is not duly credited to some fellow - laborer , is my own , whether good or ...
... minds with- out due credit . It is proper , therefore , that I should , in self - defence , declare that every illustration employed in the discourses , which is not duly credited to some fellow - laborer , is my own , whether good or ...
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... mind scores of cases where improper indul- gence in food , under such circumstances , has been fatal to the life of the individual , can no more be trusted to regulate his own diet , during the period of convalescence from a severe and ...
... mind scores of cases where improper indul- gence in food , under such circumstances , has been fatal to the life of the individual , can no more be trusted to regulate his own diet , during the period of convalescence from a severe and ...
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... mind my own business ! ” Well , Mr. President , what think you of the blacksmith's tes- timony ? I think you must have heard complaints very like his before . But , Mr. Mahogany , what have you to say against the rum traffic ? Does your ...
... mind my own business ! ” Well , Mr. President , what think you of the blacksmith's tes- timony ? I think you must have heard complaints very like his before . But , Mr. Mahogany , what have you to say against the rum traffic ? Does your ...
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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...