 | William Acton - 1865 - 298 pages
...thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and passive will—to see his destruction and have no power to stop it,...self-restraint or purity is felt any more. Not the least among the objects I have proposed to myself in writing these pages, is to offer frank and kindly warning... | |
 | William Acton - 1867 - 304 pages
...the springs of the will gone down like a broken clock, the sin and the suffering co-instantaneous, or the latter forerunning the former, remorse preceding...selfrestraint or purity is felt any more. Not the least among the objects I have proposed to myself in writing these pages, is to offer frank and kindly warning... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1867 - 524 pages
...last night's drinking, and feverishly looking forward for this night's repetition of the folly — could he feel the body of 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 466 pages
...drinking, and feverishly looking 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 574 pages
...drinking, and feverishly looking 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Psychology - 1869 - 580 pages
...and feverishly looking for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death 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... | |
 | Joseph Farrand Tuttle - History - 1870 - 294 pages
...and feverishly looking forward to 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... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1872 - 598 pages
...with last night's drinking, and feverish looking for to-night's repetition of the folly ; could he but feel the body of death out of which I cry hourly with feebler outcry to be delivered, it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth, in all... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - Lost coin (Parable) - 1873 - 170 pages
...drinking, and feverishly-looking 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... | |
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... 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... 
