Textbook of Temperance

Capa
Z. P. Vose & Company, 1869 - 312 páginas
 

Outras edições - Ver tudo

Palavras e frases frequentes

Passagens conhecidas

Página 292 - Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Página 53 - 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.
Página 179 - Resolved, That it be recommended to the several legislatures of the United States, immediately to pass laws the most effectual for putting an immediate stop to the pernicious practice of distilling grain, by which the most extensive evils are likely to be derived, if not quickly prevented.
Página 210 - And if any State deems the retail and internal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to its citizens, and calculated to produce idleness, vice, or debauchery, I see nothing in the constitution of the United States to prevent it from regulating and restraining the traffic, or from prohibiting it altogether, if it thinks proper.
Página 277 - ... to make it easy to do right, and hard to do wrong.
Página 180 - An act to lay a duty on strong liquors, and for regulating inns and taverns, so far as it relates to the city of New York, and for other purposes,'
Página 124 - Look not upon the wine when it is red, When it giveth his color in the cup, When it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.
Página 211 - As subjects of legislation, they are from their very nature of primary importance ; they lie at the foundation of social existence; they are for the protection of life and liberty, and necessarily compel all laws on subjects of secondary importance, which relate only to property, convenience, or luxury, to recede, when they come in conflict or collision. " Salus populi supremo, lex." If the right to control these subjects be "complete, unqualified and exclusive...
Página 71 - 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...
Página 210 - States, yet, as congress has made no regulation on the subject, the traffic in the article may be lawfully regulated by the State as soon as it is landed in its territory, and a tax imposed upon it, or a license required, or the sale altogether prohibited, according to the policy which the State may suppose to be its interest or duty to pursue.

Informação bibliográfica