An Earnest Plea for the Reign of Temperance and Peace ... submitted to the visitors of the Great Exhibition, etcPeter Jackson, 1851 - 144 oldal |
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108. oldal
... France , have the heaviest burdens to bear . The national debt of England - now about eight hun- dred millions sterling , involving a taxation of thirty millions annually to discharge its interest only- was contracted almost solely to ...
... France , have the heaviest burdens to bear . The national debt of England - now about eight hun- dred millions sterling , involving a taxation of thirty millions annually to discharge its interest only- was contracted almost solely to ...
109. oldal
... France especially , the two nations that place themselves at the head of all others in the world , that no sane person is able to discover the least probability of its ever being liquidated by any process of repayment . And even if the ...
... France especially , the two nations that place themselves at the head of all others in the world , that no sane person is able to discover the least probability of its ever being liquidated by any process of repayment . And even if the ...
110. oldal
... France , in the same murderous game , would be still indisputable , and the amount be for ever lost to the world . ( Applause . ) Lastly , if we regard War under the aspect of its moral or rather immoral influences , we shall have as ...
... France , in the same murderous game , would be still indisputable , and the amount be for ever lost to the world . ( Applause . ) Lastly , if we regard War under the aspect of its moral or rather immoral influences , we shall have as ...
113. oldal
... France , and still more so in Italy and Spain , men avenged their own quarrels by duels , by assassination , or by open assault ; and none were willing to entrust the decision of their disputes to any other arm than their own . This ...
... France , and still more so in Italy and Spain , men avenged their own quarrels by duels , by assassination , or by open assault ; and none were willing to entrust the decision of their disputes to any other arm than their own . This ...
115. oldal
... France , in at least a hun- dred different public meetings . And well indeed am I disposed and perhaps prepared for such discussions , because it has been my lot to see something of the horrors of war in actual personal combat , by sea ...
... France , in at least a hun- dred different public meetings . And well indeed am I disposed and perhaps prepared for such discussions , because it has been my lot to see something of the horrors of war in actual personal combat , by sea ...
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alcoholic liquors amount annually ardent spirits beer benefit beverage Braidley British cause Committee consequences conviction crime death destroyed destruction disease distillation districts of England drunkenness duty earth effects England enjoyment equal evil excessive drinking Exhibition expended expenditure experience extent fifty millions France French gin-shops Government greatest happiness hear House House of Commons human increased industry influence injurious intoxicating drinks Ireland JAMES SILK BUCKINGHAM John kingdom labouring classes land lative legislative less licences London magistrates manufacturing Medical ment millions sterling ministers of religion moral nations navy and army never occasion Paris PEACE persons PETER JACKSON Physician poison police population portion present principle produced promote ranks reform religion remedy result Scotland spirit-shops stimulating drinks strength strong drink Temperance Society testimony thousand tion towns towns of Ulster truth United Kingdom vice visitors whole wholesome wine
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xii. oldal - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations...
79. oldal - HAVE examined the Matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following REPORT:— YOUR Committee...
xiii. oldal - Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? "They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
xiii. oldal - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
xiii. oldal - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
xiii. oldal - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink [Rev.
105. oldal - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
50. oldal - So far from being calculated to assist the human body in enduring fatigue, I have always found that the strongest liquors were the most enervating, and this in whatever quantity they were consumed; for the daily use of spirits is an evil which retains its pernicious character through all its gradations ; indulged in at all, it can produce nothing better than a diluted or mitigated kind of mischief.
xxvii. oldal - Liquors should form part of the ordinary sustenance of man, particularly under circumstances of exposure to severe labour or to extremes of temperature '•* Or, on the other hand, is there reason for believing that such use of them is not sanctioned by the principles of science, or the results of practical observation?
ii. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the particular features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to the accomplishment of that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.