Textbook of TemperanceZ. P. Vose & Company, 1869 - 312 pages |
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Page 53 - Thus beautifully do the designs of Nature and the discoveries of Science, harmonize with the declarations of God's most Holy Word, — " THUS SAITH THE LORD, As THE GRAPE IS FOUND IN THE CLUSTER, AND one saith, DESTROY IT NOT, * FOR A BLESSING is IN IT : so WILL I DO FOR MY SERVANTS' SAKE, THAT I MAY NOT DESTROY THEM ALL.
Page 209 - any article of merchandise which Congress authorizes to be imported, it is not bound to furnish a market for it, nor to abstain from the passage of any law which it may deem necessary or advisable to guard the health or morals of its citizens, although such law may discourage importation, or * See
Page 281 - " There is a moment in a bout of good wine, at which, if a man could but remain, wit, wisdom, courage, generosity, eloquence, happiness, were his; but the moment passes, and that other glass somehow spoils the state of beatitude" Truly, " wine is a mocker." 176. Thirdly, temperance reformers must be something more
Page 294 - Confessions of an Opium Eater," so far back as 1823, spoke of " an incredible number" of opiumeaters, and showed that the use of ale and spirits had first generated the necessity or craving. He says : — " I take it for granted " ' That those eat now who never ate before, And those who always ate, now
Page 8 - He who knows what is good and chooses it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate." • Aristotle, the most scientific mind of antiquity, says,— " Temperance is a mean state on the subject of pleasures, — bodily
Page 185 - President Jefferson said, a little before his death : — " Were I to commence my administration again, with the knowledge which, from experience, I have acquired, the first question I would ask with regard to every public candidate for public office should be, Is he addicted to the use of ardent spirits?
Page 62 - for bone, muscle, nerve, or brain. It cannot, therefore, nourish. Baron LIEBIG says : " Beer, wine, spirits, etc., furnish no element capable of entering into the composition of blood, muscular fibre, or any part which is the seat of the vital principle.
Page 30 - NEVER FORMS SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS ; she rots the grape upon the branch, but it is ART which converts the juice into [alcoholic] wine" (" L'Art de Faire le Vin.," p. 2. Paris, 1819.) "ALCOHOL," said Dr. E. Turner, " is the intoxicating ingredient of all spirituous and vinous liquors. IT DOES NOT EXIST READY FORMED IN PLANTS, but
Page 190 - prohibition, not of license. existence of a hope and a purpose, which only required to be known in order to become mighty by association. In 1813, the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance was formed, to discountenance " the too free use of ardent spirit and its kindred vices, profaneness and gaming, and to encourage temperance and general morality.
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