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... person standing before it . " It overtopped a giant , and all but condescended to the stature of a dwarf , " says the tradition . That image is a symbol of Nature . The lowest savage must dimly recognize the fact that man can not ...
... person standing before it . " It overtopped a giant , and all but condescended to the stature of a dwarf , " says the tradition . That image is a symbol of Nature . The lowest savage must dimly recognize the fact that man can not ...
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... persons have been con- cerned in the experiment as patients or witnesses ; . . . while the process of infinitesimally attenuating the drugs was carried to such a ridiculous extent that no one will , on sober reflection , attribute any ...
... persons have been con- cerned in the experiment as patients or witnesses ; . . . while the process of infinitesimally attenuating the drugs was carried to such a ridiculous extent that no one will , on sober reflection , attribute any ...
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... persons who were fond of their bottle- though never drunk - in the old port - wine drinking period , have transmitted very unstable nervous sys- tems to their children . " Before the same committee , Dr. E. R. Mitchell stated that " the ...
... persons who were fond of their bottle- though never drunk - in the old port - wine drinking period , have transmitted very unstable nervous sys- tems to their children . " Before the same committee , Dr. E. R. Mitchell stated that " the ...
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... person known as a habitual and incurable sot . By pretty careful inquiry as to the number of idiots of the lowest classes whose parents were known to be temperate persons , it is found that not one quarter can be so con- sidered . Dr ...
... person known as a habitual and incurable sot . By pretty careful inquiry as to the number of idiots of the lowest classes whose parents were known to be temperate persons , it is found that not one quarter can be so con- sidered . Dr ...
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... persons who could not possibly have foreseen their fate . In 1282 an ir- ruption of the Zuyder Sea overwhelmed sixty - five towns whose inhabitants had not five minutes ' time to effect their escape . But what are such calamities ...
... persons who could not possibly have foreseen their fate . In 1282 an ir- ruption of the Zuyder Sea overwhelmed sixty - five towns whose inhabitants had not five minutes ' time to effect their escape . But what are such calamities ...
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
The Poison Problem; Or, the Cause and Cure of Intemperance Felix Leopold Oswald No preview available - 2011 |
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Page 85 - The alcohol does not relieve the individual from cold by increasing his temperature ; nor from heat by cooling him ; nor from weakness and exhaustion by nourishing his tissues ; nor yet from affliction by increasing his nerve...
Page 85 - ... and thereby lessening his consciousness of impressions, whether from cold, or heat, or weariness, or pain. In other words, the presence of the alcohol has not in any degree lessened the effects of the evils to which he is exposed, but has diminished his consciousness of their existence, and thereby impaired his judgment concerning the degree of their action upon him.
Page 101 - In the course of my duty as internal revenue officer, I have become thoroughly acquainted with the state and extent of the liquor traffic in Maine, and I have no hesitation in saying that the beer trade is not more than one per cent. of what I remember it to have been, and the trade in distilled liquors is not more than ten per cent. of what it was formerly. . . . When liquor is sold at all, it is done secretly, through fear of the law.