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... thousand years ago worship of Bacchus was propagated by force of arms . The disciples of Ibn Hanbal , the Arabian Father Mathew , were stoned in the streets of Bagdad . The persecutions and repeated expulsions of the Gre- cian ...
... thousand years ago worship of Bacchus was propagated by force of arms . The disciples of Ibn Hanbal , the Arabian Father Mathew , were stoned in the streets of Bagdad . The persecutions and repeated expulsions of the Gre- cian ...
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... thousand men , not half of them entitled to plead the excuses of poverty or igno- rance , unblushingly invoke the protection of the laws in behalf of an industry involving the systematic prop- agation of disease , misery , and crime ...
... thousand men , not half of them entitled to plead the excuses of poverty or igno- rance , unblushingly invoke the protection of the laws in behalf of an industry involving the systematic prop- agation of disease , misery , and crime ...
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... thousand Russian soldiers perished in the Caucasian defiles before the Russian eagles supplanted the cres- cent of Daghestan : for the heroic highlanders are Mohammedans , and total abstainers from intoxicat- ing drinks . The Ossetes ...
... thousand Russian soldiers perished in the Caucasian defiles before the Russian eagles supplanted the cres- cent of Daghestan : for the heroic highlanders are Mohammedans , and total abstainers from intoxicat- ing drinks . The Ossetes ...
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... thousand 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 ...
... thousand 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 ...
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... thousands of herds on the altar of a national idol , and , in conformity with an established custom , let the carcasses rot in the open fields till the progress of putrefaction filled the land with horror and pestilence ; if , moreover ...
... thousands of herds on the altar of a national idol , and , in conformity with an established custom , let the carcasses rot in the open fields till the progress of putrefaction filled the land with horror and pestilence ; if , moreover ...
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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.