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... things . Keep the safe middle course . A dangerous fallacy lurks in those precepts . It may be safe to compromise conflicting duties , as chari- ty and economy , patriotism and domestic obligations ; but where is the golden mean of ...
... things . Keep the safe middle course . A dangerous fallacy lurks in those precepts . It may be safe to compromise conflicting duties , as chari- ty and economy , patriotism and domestic obligations ; but where is the golden mean of ...
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... things are repulsive , all beneficial things attractive . Provi- dence has endowed our species with a liberal share of the protective instinct that teaches our dumb fellow- creatures to select their proper food , and even in this age of ...
... things are repulsive , all beneficial things attractive . Provi- dence has endowed our species with a liberal share of the protective instinct that teaches our dumb fellow- creatures to select their proper food , and even in this age of ...
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... things he is reported to have swallowed in his extremity . " Polydipsia is not always due to the direct or indirect ( hereditary ) influ- ence of the alcohol habit , and the origin of the dis- order was long considered doubtful ; but it ...
... things he is reported to have swallowed in his extremity . " Polydipsia is not always due to the direct or indirect ( hereditary ) influ- ence of the alcohol habit , and the origin of the dis- order was long considered doubtful ; but it ...
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... thing remains certain - Nature does not go backward of her own accord . Wherever the harmony of creation has not been willfully disturbed , the trees are as tall as of yore , the fruits as sweet , and the flowers as fragrant . The eagle ...
... thing remains certain - Nature does not go backward of her own accord . Wherever the harmony of creation has not been willfully disturbed , the trees are as tall as of yore , the fruits as sweet , and the flowers as fragrant . The eagle ...
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... rumpus turns the house upside down . No wonder that things go from bad to worse , no wonder the tenants can not pay their rent ; but a very considerable wonder that the landlord does not relieve them 52 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... rumpus turns the house upside down . No wonder that things go from bad to worse , no wonder the tenants can not pay their rent ; but a very considerable wonder that the landlord does not relieve them 52 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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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.