 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...  The Medical Temperance Journal - Page 1921883Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 396 pages
...just, they are indeed too true; but I can no longer resist temptation : if a bottle of brandy stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other; and if I were convinced that I would be pushed in as surely as I took one more glass, I could not refrain. You... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1839 - 564 pages
...remarks are indeed too true, but I can no longer resist temptation. If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and if I were convinced that I were to be pushed in, as surely as I took one more glass, I could not refrain;... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - Alcoholism - 1840 - 542 pages
...remarks are indeed too true, but I can no longer resist temptation. If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and if I were convinced that I were to be pushed in, as surely as I took one more glass, I could not refrain... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - Alcoholism - 1855 - 540 pages
...stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and if I were convinced that I were to be pushed in, as surely as I took one more glass, I could not refrain ; you are all very kind ; 1 ought to he very grateful for so many kind good friends, but you may spare yourselves the trouble... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1867 - 528 pages
...itself — yawned before me, and if I were assured that I should be thrust into this region of woe as surely as I took one more glass, I could not refrain from taking it. You are all very kind : I ought to be very grateful for so many kind, good friends... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1875 - 646 pages
...Baronet's answer to the most urgent medical expostulation is : ' If a bottle of brandy stood on one side, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and if I knew that I should be pushed in as sure as I took another glass, I could not refrain/ The poor man's answer is... | |
 | Alcoholism - 1880 - 94 pages
...Baronet's answer to the most urgent medical expostulation is, " If a bottle of brandy stood on one side and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and if I knew I should be pushed in as sure as I took another glass, I could not refrain." The poor man's answer... | |
 | George Archdall O'Brien Reid, Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid - Alcoholism - 1901 - 328 pages
...between me and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get that rum.' ' If a bottle of brandy stood on one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and I were convinced I should be pushed in as sure as I took one glass I could not refrain.' Such statements... | |
 | Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid - Genetic disorders - 1905 - 386 pages
...balls between me and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get that rum. If a bottle of brandy stood on one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and I were convinced I should be pushed in as sure as I took one glass, I could not refrain." Such statements... | |
 | Paul Popenoe, Roswell Hill Johnson - Eugenics - 1918 - 530 pages
...balls between me and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get that rum. If a bottle of brandy stood on one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and I were convinced I should be pushed in as surely as I took one glass, I could not refrain.' Such statements... | |
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