Right and Duty of Prohibition: Argument Before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, in the Hall of the House of RepresentativesWright & Potter, printers, 1867 - Всего страниц: 122 |
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... learned counsel , borne over by the instincts of their cause , from their assumed to their true position , found themselves attempting to prove that total abstinence is not a good , and that alcoholic beverages , moderately indulged in ...
... learned counsel , borne over by the instincts of their cause , from their assumed to their true position , found themselves attempting to prove that total abstinence is not a good , and that alcoholic beverages , moderately indulged in ...
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... learned ; and one hundred and forty - five , or nearly one- half , are reported as known to be habitual drunkards . " I have the testimony , gentlemen , which I will not read , of Dr. Alexander D. W. Martin , of this city , to the same ...
... learned ; and one hundred and forty - five , or nearly one- half , are reported as known to be habitual drunkards . " I have the testimony , gentlemen , which I will not read , of Dr. Alexander D. W. Martin , of this city , to the same ...
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... learned and philosophical writer on Insanity , & c . , in his great work on the degeneracies of the human race , says , - " There is always a hopeless number of paralytic and other insane persons in our [ French ] hospitals , whose ...
... learned and philosophical writer on Insanity , & c . , in his great work on the degeneracies of the human race , says , - " There is always a hopeless number of paralytic and other insane persons in our [ French ] hospitals , whose ...
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... the last year . Passing over the testimony of Dr. Munroe , upon this point , I will call your attention to the evidence touching alcohol as food . While , in general , it may be remarked that the statements of the learned men who 46.
... the last year . Passing over the testimony of Dr. Munroe , upon this point , I will call your attention to the evidence touching alcohol as food . While , in general , it may be remarked that the statements of the learned men who 46.
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... learned men who have testified here may be accepted as true , one thing must be admitted : some of them were voluble in setting forth the excellences of alcoholic preparations , medicinally considered , but were extremely reticent ...
... learned men who have testified here may be accepted as true , one thing must be admitted : some of them were voluble in setting forth the excellences of alcoholic preparations , medicinally considered , but were extremely reticent ...
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abstinence alcoholic beverages alcoholic liquors alcoholic preparations alleged Amherst College apothecaries asked authority Barnstable Barnstable County Berkshire Board Boston Herald cause cent Chairman Christian citizens city of Boston Committee Common Commonwealth crime criminal Deaths from Intemperance declared delirium tremens disease drunkards drunkenness effect Emory Washburn enactment evidence evils executed fact Faneuil Hall favor fermented France gentlemen grape habits hand Hospital human hundred indulgence influence insane intoxicating beverages intoxicating liquors Judge Sanger learned counsel Legislature license law liquor traffic liquor-sellers liquors as beverages Lowell lunatics Massachusetts Medical medicinal Member moral Nantucket Counties OLIVER AMES open sale opinion perance petitioners population pounds sterling present law prisons prohibition prohibitory law pulpit question regard remonstrances respect restrain sale of liquors sell social society stringent Suffolk County teetotaler temperance testified testimony thousand tion total abstinence town twenty various Williams College wine witnesses
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Стр. 75 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Стр. 55 - That persons accustomed to such drinks may with perfect safety discontinue them entirely, either at once, or gradually after a short time.
Стр. 46 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.
Стр. 33 - The drunkard not only injures and enfeebles his own nervous system, but entails mental disease upon his family. His daughters are nervous and hysterical ; his sons are weak, wayward, eccentric, and sink insane under the pressure of excitement, of some unforeseen exigency, or of the ordinary calls of duty.
Стр. 54 - That the most perfect health is compatible with total abstinence from all such intoxicating beverages, whether in the form of ardent spirits, or as wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, &c., &c.
Стр. 69 - The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners ! 35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
Стр. 69 - Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? 32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Стр. 70 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Стр. 59 - I came to Europe under the impression that there was more drunkenness among us than in any other country, — England, perhaps, excepted. A residence of six months in Paris changed my views entirely ; I have taken unbelievers with me into the streets, and have never failed to convince them of their mistake in the course of an hour On one occasion a party of four went out with this object ; we passed thirteen drunken men...
Стр. 79 - Whenever, in short, there is a definite damage, or a definite risk of damage, either to an individual or to the public, the case is taken out of the province of liberty, and placed in that of morality or law.