| Frederic Richard Lees - 1809 - 332 páginas
...proportion to the facilities for the use of intoxicants. 8. That, in the language of Thomas de Quincey, " The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society, which history perhaps will bo summoned to notice, is that which, in our own days, has applied itself to the abatement of Intemperance.... | |
| Frederic Richard Lees - 1869 - 326 páginas
...proportion to the facilities for the. use of intoxicants. 8. That, in the language of Thomas de Quincey, " The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society, which history pei'haps will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our own days, has applied itself to the abatement... | |
| Frederic Richard Lees - 1871 - 296 páginas
...the ' Bock '-Beer-season in Berlin, at which time a large 8. In the language of Thomas de Quincey, "The most remarkable instance of a combined movement...has applied itself to the abatement of Intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action, by velocities continually accelerated : the great revolutionary... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 676 páginas
...speaking as God's messenger, " blesses it, and calls it very good." NATIONAL TEMPERANCE MOVEMENTS. THE most remarkable instance of a combined movement...If one hundred men unite to elevate the standard of temperanc.o, they can do this with effect only by improvements in their own separate cases : each individual,... | |
| 1881 - 996 páginas
...singular and somewhat disappointing production, but the lirst sentence is a noticeable one. He says: " The most remarkable instance of a combined movement...perhaps, will be summoned to notice, is that which in our o\vu davs has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance." In a subsequent paragraph there is... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1881 - 34 páginas
...calls it a " curse that far eclipses every other calamity under which we suffer." De Quincey says, " The most remarkable instance of a combined movement...will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action... | |
| Joseph Livesey - 1885 - 376 páginas
...speaks, the disciple answers, as thought responds to thought, and heart to heart. — Dr. F, B. LBBS. The most remarkable instance of a combined movement...applied itself to the abatement of intemperance.— THOMAS DE QciifCBi. Nothing awakens our sleeping virtues like the noble acts of our predecessors. They... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - 1890 - 608 páginas
...intemperance than by the three great historical scourges, — war, pestilence, and famine." De Quincey says, " The most remarkable instance of a combined movement...will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1891 - 502 páginas
...intemperance than by the three great historical scourges, — war, pestilence, and famine." De Quincey says, " The most remarkable instance of a combined movement...will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action... | |
| 1892 - 940 páginas
...be referred the origin of what is now known as the temperance movement, described by De Quincey as ' the most remarkable instance of a combined movement...society which history, perhaps, will be summoned to record.' The leaders of the American Temperance Society included many of the chief ministers and professors... | |
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