My experiences as a moderate drinker, a drunkard and a total abstainer. To which is added 'A rill from the town pump', by N. Hawthorne1884 |
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... constantly guilty of the sin of drunkenness . Curious evidence of the practice of continual insobriety , is furnished in that singular series of letters , addressed to LONOVC4 OXFO LONDON PRINTED BY THE LONDON LITERARY SOCIETY ,
... constantly guilty of the sin of drunkenness . Curious evidence of the practice of continual insobriety , is furnished in that singular series of letters , addressed to LONOVC4 OXFO LONDON PRINTED BY THE LONDON LITERARY SOCIETY ,
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... practice , is often evidenced by men sleeping for hours under a hedge to recover from the effects of their debauch , when valuable sunshine is often lost particularly in catching weather in hay harvest time . But the great evil in the ...
... practice , is often evidenced by men sleeping for hours under a hedge to recover from the effects of their debauch , when valuable sunshine is often lost particularly in catching weather in hay harvest time . But the great evil in the ...
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... practice of prudence , and attention to business during a long course of years , have amassed considerable sums of money , to which their cool heads have mainly contributed , who make not the least allowance for their impulsive brethren ...
... practice of prudence , and attention to business during a long course of years , have amassed considerable sums of money , to which their cool heads have mainly contributed , who make not the least allowance for their impulsive brethren ...
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... of skipping over each road - crossing quickly , and as I used sometimes to pick up a fellow employè who lived in the Holloway Road , who had to accommodate his pace to C 18 Sabbath Rest . mine , we nicknamed this practice.
... of skipping over each road - crossing quickly , and as I used sometimes to pick up a fellow employè who lived in the Holloway Road , who had to accommodate his pace to C 18 Sabbath Rest . mine , we nicknamed this practice.
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Charles Meadows. 18 Sabbath Rest . mine , we nicknamed this practice " Hopping the Crossings , " and it made a very sensible difference in the time occupied by our journey , which I could walk in an hour . It used to take , however , an ...
Charles Meadows. 18 Sabbath Rest . mine , we nicknamed this practice " Hopping the Crossings , " and it made a very sensible difference in the time occupied by our journey , which I could walk in an hour . It used to take , however , an ...
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Page 52 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares ; for as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Page 69 - town treasurer " is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes. I am at the head of the fire department, and one of the physicians to the board of health.
Page 77 - In the moral warfare, which you are to wage — and, indeed, in the whole conduct of your lives — you cannot choose a better example than myself, who have never permitted the dust and sultry atmosphere, the turbulence and manifold disquietudes of the world around me, to reach that deep, calm well of purity, which may be called my soul. And whenever I pour out that soul, it is to cool earth's fever, or cleanse its stains.
Page 23 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 73 - ... at the corner of two streets. In the hot months, when its refreshment was most needed, the dust flew in clouds over the forgotten birthplace of the waters, now their grave. But, in the course of time, a Town Pump was sunk into the source of the ancient spring ; and when the first decayed, another took its place — and then another, and still another — till here stand I, gentlemen and ladies, to serve you with my iron goblet.
Page 75 - ... finally monopolize the whole business of quenching thirst. Blessed consummation ! Then Poverty shall pass away from the land, finding no hovel so wretched, where her squalid form may shelter itself. Then, Disease, for lack of other victims, shall gnaw its own heart, and die.
Page 75 - ... the grand reformer of the age. From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast portion of its crime and anguish, which has gushed from the fiery fountains of the still. In this mighty enterprise, the cow shall be my great confederate. Milk and water...
Page 72 - What ! he limps by, without so much as thanking me, as if my hospitable offers were meant only for people who have no wine-cellars.
Page 57 - All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Page 17 - The live-long night : nor these alone, whose notes, Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.