How to Stop DrunkennessS.W. Partridge, 1864 - 80 Seiten |
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allowed amusements beer-shops BIBLE Brewer C. L. BALFOUR cause cent CHARLES BUXTON Chriftian city missionary classes closed on Sunday Cloth coffee coffee-houses CONTENTS drunk earneſtly Edition Eight Engravings evil families favour fermented liquors Fifth Thouſand five force Four Engravings Four months GEORGE MOGRIDGE gilt edges harmless houses Illuftrated intoxication that fills J. H. WILSON J. T. BARR J. W. Kirton known as OLD leffons license London magistrates Maine Law ments millions moral nopoly NORTH BRITISH REVIEW number of gallons OLD HUMPHREY Parliament Paternofter Row persons petition police poor proposed publicans rate-payers regulation of public-houses S. W. PARTRIDGE sale of beer sale of spirits says schools ſketch sobriety STOP DRUNKENNESS ſtory T. S. Arthur tale Teetotalism Temperance temptation Tenth Thousand thing Third Thouſand thoſe tion trade Twentieth Thouſand United Kingdom wives Workhouſe Yearly young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 15 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects...
Seite 10 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Seite 12 - We are convinced, that if a statesman who heartily wished to do the utmost possible good to his country, were thoughtfully to inquire which of the topics of the day deserved the most intense force of his attention, the true reply — the reply which would be exacted by full deliberation, — would be, that he should study the means by which this worst of plagues can be stayed.
Seite 7 - Nay, add together all the miseries generated in our times by war, famine, and pestilence, the three great scourges of mankind, and they do not exceed those that spring from this one calamity.
Seite 13 - ... deserved the most intense force of his attention, the true reply — the reply which would be exacted by full deliberation — would be, that he should study the means by which this worst of plagues can be stayed. The intellectual, the moral, and the religious welfare of our people, their material comforts, their •domestic happiness, are all involved.
Seite 50 - Rates have nearly vanished, and the gaols in some places are reported empty. The people rejoice in the law and sustain it heartily.* The chief objection made to such a law is, that it would be greatly evaded. But the use of it would be, not so much to deprive drunkards of their liquor, as to remove temptation from those who are not yet fallen. We think, under these circumstances, it might not be amiss to permit the application of a similar law to some parts of the United Kingdom. In fact, we are...
Seite 10 - It is the mightiest of alljihe forces that clog the progress of good. It is in vain that every engine is set to work that philanthropy can devise, when those whom we seek to benefit are habitually tampering with their faculties of reason and will — soaking their brains with beer, or inflaming them with ardent spirits. The struggle of the school, the library, and the Church, all united against the beer-house and the gin-palace, is but one development of the war between heaven and hell.