The Medical Temperance Journal, Volumes 14-151883 |
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... known in English homes , your hearts would be touched . I have known a young man , a college graduate , amiable , talented and industrious , whose mother might well have looked forward to his assured success in life - I have known such ...
... known in English homes , your hearts would be touched . I have known a young man , a college graduate , amiable , talented and industrious , whose mother might well have looked forward to his assured success in life - I have known such ...
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... known to one more . Saddest of all - I have known a poor wife , who one night went to bed heavy with drink , her fair - haired child by her side . Soon after sunrise the little fellow awoke , and made his way into another room . He ...
... known to one more . Saddest of all - I have known a poor wife , who one night went to bed heavy with drink , her fair - haired child by her side . Soon after sunrise the little fellow awoke , and made his way into another room . He ...
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... known to be generally used by the inhabitants of the locali . ties where it is grown , and elsewhere by those who cannot afford to buy the foreign drug . But it is also stated that many well - to - do Chinese , who had been in the habit ...
... known to be generally used by the inhabitants of the locali . ties where it is grown , and elsewhere by those who cannot afford to buy the foreign drug . But it is also stated that many well - to - do Chinese , who had been in the habit ...
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... known an opium smoker of thirty years ' standing who did not show the slightest sign of being affected by the habit . He did not think it right to compare the opium traffic with the trade in alcohol ; but he did not see a single ...
... known an opium smoker of thirty years ' standing who did not show the slightest sign of being affected by the habit . He did not think it right to compare the opium traffic with the trade in alcohol ; but he did not see a single ...
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... known to arise from partaking of fermented wine at the Communion , and as a medicine , after even a long period of abstinence . Such weak , broken - down , shiftless , diseased beings were quite unfitted to manage the affairs either of ...
... known to arise from partaking of fermented wine at the Communion , and as a medicine , after even a long period of abstinence . Such weak , broken - down , shiftless , diseased beings were quite unfitted to manage the affairs either of ...
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Page 192 - Could the youth, to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, — to see his...
Page 100 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 192 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth — " And not undo 'era To suffer WET DAMNATION to run through 'em.
Page 192 - ... look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will — to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself ; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own...
Page 188 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inmates : 2.
Page 42 - Fourthly. That the guardians may, without any direction of the medical officer, make such allowance of food as may be necessary to paupers employed as nurses or in the household work ; but they shall not allow to such paupers any fermented or spirituous liquors on account of the performance of such work, unless in pursuance of a written recommendation of the medical officer.
Page 192 - I were to be pushed in, as surely as I took one more glass, I could not refrain ; you are all very kind ; I ought to be very grateful for so many kind good friends, but you may spare, yourselves the trouble of trying to reform me- — the thing is now impossible...
Page 151 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
Page 91 - ... and the name and place of business of the seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any person to...
Page 181 - In each recess of space and time, at home; Familiar with their wonders: diving deep; And like a prince of boundless...