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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... twenty deaths out of a hundred and eighty - one , one ninth part , to have been produced di- rectly by intemperance ; and the remark is added , ' many who are included in the con- sumption list , might be added to the deaths by ...
... twenty deaths out of a hundred and eighty - one , one ninth part , to have been produced di- rectly by intemperance ; and the remark is added , ' many who are included in the con- sumption list , might be added to the deaths by ...
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... twenty - six millions of gallons , * of which six hundred thousand were exported , leaving more than twenty - five millions for the consumption of the country ; to which if the above named average amount of the for- eign commmodity be ...
... twenty - six millions of gallons , * of which six hundred thousand were exported , leaving more than twenty - five millions for the consumption of the country ; to which if the above named average amount of the for- eign commmodity be ...
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... twenty , in thirty , -no more need be said to establish the conclu- sion , that intemperance is a prodigious pub- lick evil , and requires very serious publick notice ; that a great national calamity at this moment is endured , and ...
... twenty , in thirty , -no more need be said to establish the conclu- sion , that intemperance is a prodigious pub- lick evil , and requires very serious publick notice ; that a great national calamity at this moment is endured , and ...
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... twenty five or thirty bushels of that valuable grain ; and there being , as I have stated , a million times that consumption among the population of our country , it fol- lows that a quantity of nourishing food equiva- lent to twenty ...
... twenty five or thirty bushels of that valuable grain ; and there being , as I have stated , a million times that consumption among the population of our country , it fol- lows that a quantity of nourishing food equiva- lent to twenty ...
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... twenty - eight persons in its alms - house , there were but two who were not brought thither , either directly or indirectly , by intem- * * Fifty four were maniacs , and seven cripples , from this cause ; and twenty - eight suffering ...
... twenty - eight persons in its alms - house , there were but two who were not brought thither , either directly or indirectly , by intem- * * Fifty four were maniacs , and seven cripples , from this cause ; and twenty - eight suffering ...
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