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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... tion , property and conscience , protected by equal laws and just magistrates at home . He had heard of no interruption of any of the channels of publick prosperity ; no in- testine broil , nor wide devastation of flood or fire , storm ...
... tion , property and conscience , protected by equal laws and just magistrates at home . He had heard of no interruption of any of the channels of publick prosperity ; no in- testine broil , nor wide devastation of flood or fire , storm ...
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... tion of this commodity in the country at large , about $ 75,000 ; making a total of $ 887,247 . Of this , on the same supposition , there were exported domestick spirits amounting to about $ 50,000 , or $ 25,000 worth of molasses , and ...
... tion of this commodity in the country at large , about $ 75,000 ; making a total of $ 887,247 . Of this , on the same supposition , there were exported domestick spirits amounting to about $ 50,000 , or $ 25,000 worth of molasses , and ...
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... tion was much smaller , and the vice less common ; and though the estimate was prob- bly at that time exorbitant , I greatly fear that it might now be found to fall considera- bly within the truth . The year before , the bill of ...
... tion was much smaller , and the vice less common ; and though the estimate was prob- bly at that time exorbitant , I greatly fear that it might now be found to fall considera- bly within the truth . The year before , the bill of ...
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... tion of intemperance being the remote or proximate cause of three deaths yearly , in a population of a thousand . And supposing ten years to be the average term of life , after habits of excess are fixed , ( a favourable sup- position ...
... tion of intemperance being the remote or proximate cause of three deaths yearly , in a population of a thousand . And supposing ten years to be the average term of life , after habits of excess are fixed , ( a favourable sup- position ...
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... tion is , there are authenticated instances of mothers taking from their children's mouths the bread which charity had given to satisfy their hunger ; yea , literally stripping from their children the clothes which charity had They ...
... tion is , there are authenticated instances of mothers taking from their children's mouths the bread which charity had given to satisfy their hunger ; yea , literally stripping from their children the clothes which charity had They ...
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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.
Стр. 104 - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul...
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...