The Science Temperance Text-book, Volym 1

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The Author, 1884

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Sida 15 - Almighty Lord, and everlasting God, vouchsafe, we beseech Thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern, both our hearts and bodies, in the ways of Thy laws, and in the works of Thy commandments...
Sida 62 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain...
Sida 72 - We can prove with mathematical certainty, that as much flour or meal as can lie on the point of a tableknife is more nutritious than five measures (about eight or ten quarts ?) of the best Bavarian beer...
Sida 176 - WHEREAS the subscriber, through the pernicious habit of drinking, has greatly hurt himself in purse and person, and rendered himself odious to all his acquaintance, and finding there is no possibility of breaking off from the said * Lord Lyitleton. practice, but through...
Sida 58 - Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, " Destroy it not ; for a blessing is in it :" so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Sida 132 - A celebrated work by Porphyry contains a page of a lost work by Chseremon, librarian in one of the sacred temples in Egypt, which has a very instructive passage, enouncing a doctrine both substantially and verbally identical with that of the book of Proverbs (xxxiii. 30, 31). He says of the priests, — " Some of them [the higher] did not drink wine at all, and others [inferior] drank very little of it, on account of its being injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment to invention,...
Sida 62 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Sida xi - Christ, and so stand separate from every wrong way, it is a means of help to the weaker. As I have sometimes been much spent in the heat and have taken spirits to revive me...
Sida 145 - The wine-shops breed — in a physical atmosphere of malaria, and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance — the men of crime and revolution.
Sida 122 - ... unlikely (in the face of the chemical results) that it can enable the body to perform more work on less food, though by quickening a failing heart it may enable work to be done which otherwise could not be so. It may then act like the spur in the side of a horse, eliciting force, though not supplying it.

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