Illustrious AbstainersHodder and Stoughton, 1880 - 232 ページ |
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alcohol amongst army became Belfast Bessbrook Bishop brave Burritt Burt Canon Farrar Church of England commenced devoted distinguished drink drunkard drunkenness duty earnest Elihu Burritt eloquent enemy example Exeter Hall Father Mathew friends Goodenough Gough hand Havelock Hayes heart hero honour House Howard Illustrious Abstainer influence intemperance intoxicating liquors Ireland Irish labours living London Marlborough College meeting ment mind moderate months Morley never noble occasion once pledge Plimsoll President prisoners profession public-house remarkable returned Richardson Samuel Morley Samuel Plimsoll Sir Garnet Sir Henry Sir Henry Thompson Sir Walter Sir Wilfrid Lawson soldier soul speaking spirit teetotaler Temperance movement Temperance Society testimony Thomas Burt thou thought thousands took total abstinence town United Kingdom Alliance W. E. Gladstone whilst Wilberforce wine Wolseley words workers young
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213 ページ - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
82 ページ - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
224 ページ - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
192 ページ - tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
69 ページ - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
209 ページ - As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other...
179 ページ - Verse echoes not one beating of their hearts, History is but the shadow of their shame, Art veils her glass, or from the pageant starts As to oblivion their blind millions fleet, Staining that Heaven with obscene imagery Of their own likeness. What are numbers knit By force or custom ? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
224 ページ - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
xvi ページ - Neither may we gain by hurting our neighbour in his body. Therefore we may not sell anything which tends to impair health. Such is, eminently, all that liquid fire, commonly called drams, or spirituous liquors.
224 ページ - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery , a circumnavigation of charity.