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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... disease that purely natural appetites become uncontrollable . And , furthermore , you will find , in the case of almost every glutton , that he became so , not only by the use of stimulating articles mixed with his food , but that he ...
... disease that purely natural appetites become uncontrollable . And , furthermore , you will find , in the case of almost every glutton , that he became so , not only by the use of stimulating articles mixed with his food , but that he ...
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... disease , or has been early and severely affected by it . Acute observers have noticed this fact centuries ago . The great poet and dramatist of England , —I might say of the world , rather , saw the fact clearly , and has given us a ...
... disease , or has been early and severely affected by it . Acute observers have noticed this fact centuries ago . The great poet and dramatist of England , —I might say of the world , rather , saw the fact clearly , and has given us a ...
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... disease . There never lived a man so firm of nerve or purpose but that he would shake and utter feeble exclama- tions under the same circumstances . How irresolute is a sea- sick man ! Were you to declare your purpose to throw him ...
... disease . There never lived a man so firm of nerve or purpose but that he would shake and utter feeble exclama- tions under the same circumstances . How irresolute is a sea- sick man ! Were you to declare your purpose to throw him ...
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... disease reached its crisis , as we say , three days since : the tongue , of late so heavily loaded , has parted with its unnatural coating ; the mouth is no longer dry , for the salivary glands have resumed their natural func- tions ...
... disease reached its crisis , as we say , three days since : the tongue , of late so heavily loaded , has parted with its unnatural coating ; the mouth is no longer dry , for the salivary glands have resumed their natural func- tions ...
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... disease has bidden a kind farewell , his powers of locomotion will be very feeble for a long time to come . Yet what has been borrowed from these muscles during the late calamity must be restored , and the stomach must therefore , for a ...
... disease has bidden a kind farewell , his powers of locomotion will be very feeble for a long time to come . Yet what has been borrowed from these muscles during the late calamity must be restored , and the stomach must therefore , for a ...
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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; 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', As a sick girl.
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 color 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 78 - For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. PREFACE. THE...
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 6 - ... public, concerning the book, as I have often said of a dose of medicine to a sick friend, " If you can only manage to swallow it, I believe it will do you good.
Página 178 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, Which tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 17 - Give me some drink, Titinius" — As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of this majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
Página 77 - " I have had one of my distressed spells, and could not lie in bed," was the reply. " How long have you been sitting here, Martha ? " " Almost through the night." Seeing that there was, at the time, no fire in the apartment, I further inquired, " Have you been sitting here alone, and without fire ? " She replied that she had, and remarked that there was no wood in the house.