Discourses on Intemperance: Preached in the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, April 5, 1827, the Day of Annual Fast, and April 8, the Lord's Day FollowingNathan Hale, Congress Street, 1827 - Всего страниц: 111 |
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... habit . What stern self - upbraidings did they not utter , what overwhelming self - contempt did they not feel , when they first began to think of their bright prospects overcast , their fair name blighted , by the pernicious indul ...
... habit . What stern self - upbraidings did they not utter , what overwhelming self - contempt did they not feel , when they first began to think of their bright prospects overcast , their fair name blighted , by the pernicious indul ...
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... habits of intemperance have produced various diseases , which have terminated in apparent consumption . ' If the proportion of twenty in a hundred and eighty - one , the pro- portion of that orderly town , had been main- tained ...
... habits of intemperance have produced various diseases , which have terminated in apparent consumption . ' If the proportion of twenty in a hundred and eighty - one , the pro- portion of that orderly town , had been main- tained ...
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... habits of excess are fixed , ( a favourable sup- position , it is true , for this is an evil work , against which , vengeance is commonly exe- cuted speedily , ) it would then follow , that there are three hundred thousand inebriates ...
... habits of excess are fixed , ( a favourable sup- position , it is true , for this is an evil work , against which , vengeance is commonly exe- cuted speedily , ) it would then follow , that there are three hundred thousand inebriates ...
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... habits of regular industry are not maintained ; employment does not seek him as it has done ; and be- fore long , it appears that his affairs are em- barrassed , and provision for the wants of his household is not punctually made ...
... habits of regular industry are not maintained ; employment does not seek him as it has done ; and be- fore long , it appears that his affairs are em- barrassed , and provision for the wants of his household is not punctually made ...
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... habit , then the unhap- piness arising from it extends itself directly to a million of persons , a twelfth part of the population of the country . This is a very startling conclusion , but I see not how the inferences that lead to it ...
... habit , then the unhap- piness arising from it extends itself directly to a million of persons , a twelfth part of the population of the country . This is a very startling conclusion , but I see not how the inferences that lead to it ...
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Стр. 62 - Let us next attend to the chronic effects of ardent spirits upon the body and mind. In the body, they dispose to every form of acute disease ; they moreover excite fevers in persons predisposed to them, from other causes. This has been remarked in all the yellow fevers which have visited the cities of the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape, and rarely recover from them.
Стр. 58 - All comes to the same point ; it is, that ardent spirits are so often used to excess, because they are in general use among us, meeting us at every turn, and because with or without what in the individual case we call cause, it is to excess in frequent instances, that, when generally used at all, they tend with a powerful urgency. Every where men meet with them, and, meeting with them, men are constitutionally liable to become their prey. This is not necessary, and many in fact escape. Numbers who...
Стр. 95 - ... may do important good, in the connexion of our subject, by making known to his dependants the existence of such institutions. A person who has little money at a time, is tempted to part with it for an idle indulgence, because he knows of no way to dispose of a small sum to advantage ; and to inform him of such a way is to save much more than his money to him.
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Стр. 56 - Their use is reputable and general, and therefore it is, that their fatal use is common. Is it not so ? Those who are from time to time breaking from the ranks, and going over into the class of intemperate persons, are we not sure that it was in each of them the less indulgence which challenged no blame, that led to the greater, which is infamous and destructive .' Going further back, can we entertain the smallest doubt, that it was the unchallenged customs of society, that brought them first within...