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... of the sul- tan . Since the harvest - time of 1873 , while Ireland and eastern Brazil were struggling with famine , and thousands of our fellow men in Persia , Armenia , Cash- mere , and Greenland actually died for want of bread.
... of the sul- tan . Since the harvest - time of 1873 , while Ireland and eastern Brazil were struggling with famine , and thousands of our fellow men in Persia , Armenia , Cash- mere , and Greenland actually died for want of bread.
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... thousands of prelates owned both breweries and vineyards . Spiritual tyranny and spirituous license went hand in hand . Yet ... thousand can stay the progress of a besetting vice , and of all besetting vices the alcohol habit is the most ...
... thousands of prelates owned both breweries and vineyards . Spiritual tyranny and spirituous license went hand in hand . Yet ... thousand can stay the progress of a besetting vice , and of all besetting vices the alcohol habit is the most ...
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... Thousands of topers owe their ruin to a prescription of " tonic - bitters . " In many of our smaller cities drug - stores , rather than coffee - houses and beer - gardens , have become the preparatory schools of the rum - shop . Taught ...
... Thousands of topers owe their ruin to a prescription of " tonic - bitters . " In many of our smaller cities drug - stores , rather than coffee - houses and beer - gardens , have become the preparatory schools of the rum - shop . Taught ...
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... thousand specious advocates , there is no valid reasonto doubt that the alleged innate crav- ing for the stimulus of ... thousands of Chinese immigrants carry their thrift to the degree of renouncing their favorite beverage , but neither ...
... thousand specious advocates , there is no valid reasonto doubt that the alleged innate crav- ing for the stimulus of ... thousands of Chinese immigrants carry their thrift to the degree of renouncing their favorite beverage , but neither ...
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... thousand years as a punishment for drinking , and then returned , his first cry would be , ' Give me rum ! give me rum ! " " " The infernal powers blindfold the victims of their altars , " says Lessing , and the stimulant vice seems ...
... thousand years as a punishment for drinking , and then returned , his first cry would be , ' Give me rum ! give me rum ! " " " The infernal powers blindfold the victims of their altars , " says Lessing , and the stimulant vice seems ...
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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.