The Three Great Temptations of Young Men: With Several Lectures Addressed to Business and Professional MenMoore & Anderson, 1852 - 336 páginas |
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... nature sometimes gathers it together in wells and sinks of corruption . The very fact that , in its operation , the poison is so taken as to act slowly , con- stitutes the very secret of its terrible success . Were it more sudden and ...
... nature sometimes gathers it together in wells and sinks of corruption . The very fact that , in its operation , the poison is so taken as to act slowly , con- stitutes the very secret of its terrible success . Were it more sudden and ...
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... nature of the evil before us and the legi- timate results of the use of the intoxicating cup . If science lifts its voice against it as suicidal , so with greater emphasis do all history and experience . The history of the deeds of this ...
... nature of the evil before us and the legi- timate results of the use of the intoxicating cup . If science lifts its voice against it as suicidal , so with greater emphasis do all history and experience . The history of the deeds of this ...
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... nature to the most debasing sensuality ! fit deity for the tavern and the grogshop ! fit president for the midnight revel and stale debauch ! fit usher to the haunts of infamy and the gates of her whose guests are in hell ! But God ...
... nature to the most debasing sensuality ! fit deity for the tavern and the grogshop ! fit president for the midnight revel and stale debauch ! fit usher to the haunts of infamy and the gates of her whose guests are in hell ! But God ...
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... nature of this poison , wherever it exists in quantities suffi- cient to produce a perceptible effect , to induce a thirst for itself , which , as it is gratified , in time ripens into a morbid craving for increased potations , until ...
... nature of this poison , wherever it exists in quantities suffi- cient to produce a perceptible effect , to induce a thirst for itself , which , as it is gratified , in time ripens into a morbid craving for increased potations , until ...
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... natural tendency to increase the quantity of the stimulanta tendency to great and fatal excess , resulting from the very nature of the intoxicating potion . Alcohol is always a specific cause of intemperance . This is always its aim ...
... natural tendency to increase the quantity of the stimulanta tendency to great and fatal excess , resulting from the very nature of the intoxicating potion . Alcohol is always a specific cause of intemperance . This is always its aim ...
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Página 124 - But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
Página 49 - Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will...
Página 169 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Página 297 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Página 42 - 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.
Página 262 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Página 40 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 297 - If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches ? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
Página 123 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 224 - With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy...