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... victims to swallow enormous quantities of stimulat- ing fluids . The biographer of Richard Porson , the great classic scholar , says that his poison - thirst was " so outrageous that he can not be considered a mere willful drunkard ...
... victims to swallow enormous quantities of stimulat- ing fluids . The biographer of Richard Porson , the great classic scholar , says that his poison - thirst was " so outrageous that he can not be considered a mere willful drunkard ...
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... victim forgets the happiness of his child- hood , and accepts daily headaches and chronic night- mares as some of the " ills that flesh is heir to . " Rousseau believed that a man would be safe against the 54 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... victim forgets the happiness of his child- hood , and accepts daily headaches and chronic night- mares as some of the " ills that flesh is heir to . " Rousseau believed that a man would be safe against the 54 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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... victims of gross superstitions , but they shamed their posterity by a loyal devotion to their convictions ; by a readiness to sacrifice freedom and fortune in the service of what truth their means of inquiry had enabled them to ...
... victims of gross superstitions , but they shamed their posterity by a loyal devotion to their convictions ; by a readiness to sacrifice freedom and fortune in the service of what truth their means of inquiry had enabled them to ...
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... victim strives in vain to resist , is the concur- rent testimony of all who have directed their atten- tion to the inquiry . " It is true , though , that the manifestation of that morbid instinct always requires an external provoca ...
... victim strives in vain to resist , is the concur- rent testimony of all who have directed their atten- tion to the inquiry . " It is true , though , that the manifestation of that morbid instinct always requires an external provoca ...
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... victims we should recognize the milch cows of thousands of poor families whose children were wan with hunger , and if , furthermore , the intelligent rulers of that nation should supervise the ceremonies of the sacrifice , distribute ...
... victims we should recognize the milch cows of thousands of poor families whose children were wan with hunger , and if , furthermore , the intelligent rulers of that nation should supervise the ceremonies of the sacrifice , distribute ...
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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.