Proceedings of the Congressional Total Abstinence SocietyAmerican temperance union, 1842 - Počet stran: 39 |
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Strana 6 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Strana 23 - In the one crime of OPIUM, what crime have I not made myself guilty of ! — Ingratitude to my Maker ! and to my benefactors — injustice ! and unnatural cruelty to my poor children ! — self-contempt for my repeated promise — breach, nay, too often, actual falsehood...
Strana 16 - The inebriate having, by the habitual use of ardent spirit, exhausted, to a greater or less extent, the principle of excitability in the solids, the power of reaction, and the blood having become incapable of performing its office also, he is alike predisposed to every disease, and rendered liable to the inroads of every invading foe. So far, therefore, from protecting the system against disease, intemperance ever constitutes one of its strongest predisposing causes.
Strana 14 - But time would fail me, were I to attempt an account of half the pathology of drunkenness. Dyspepsia, jaundice, emaciation, corpulence, dropsy, ulcers, rheumatism, gout, tremors, palpitation, hysteria, epilepsy, palsy, lethargy, apoplexy, melancholy, madness, delirium tremens, and premature old age, compose but a small part of the catalogue of the diseases produced by alcoholic drinks.
Strana 32 - I am, if, by taking this pledge, it were even probable that it would bring back one human being to happiness and virtue, no matter what his rank or condition; recall the smile of hope, and trust, and love to the cheek of one wife, as she again pillowed it in safety, peace, and confidence upon the ransomed bosom of her reclaimed and natural protector; send one rosy child bounding to the arms of a parent...
Strana 23 - ... vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell; employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes exclude him! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a notion of my state, as it is possible for a good man to have. I used to think the text in St. James that "he who offended in one point, offends in all," very harsh; but I now feel the awful, the tremendous truth of it.
Strana 16 - ... materials for the different secretions, and to renovate the different tissues of the body, as well as to sustain the energy of the brain — offices which it can perform only while it retains the vermillion color and other arterial properties.
Strana 29 - ... absolutely from everything which can degrade, save only this one vice. There is no danger that a man of lofty mind, a high-spirited, well-educated gentleman, will stoop to other vices which sink and degrade humanity. He will not lie ; he cannot steal ; he is incapable of dishonor ; Death itself cannot drive him to the perpetration of baseness. Poverty, want, starvation, may assail him, he is proof against them all. This alone can drag his virtue down ; and against it what genius can guard, what...
Strana 5 - Horatio Greenough gives similar testimony respecting Italy: " Many of the more thinking and prudent Italians abstain from the use of wine ; several of the most eminent of the medical men are notoriously opposed to its use, and declare it a poison. One fifth, and sometimes one fourth, of the earnings of the laborers are expended in wine.
Strana 33 - I was not what I was represented to be. I had and I have shown that I had full power over myself. But the pledge I have taken renders me secure for ever from a fate inevitably following habits like mine — a fats more terrible than death.