| 1845 - 636 páginas
...opening upon us. Two vast movements are hurrying into action by velocities continually accelerated—the great revolutionary movement from political causes...of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate habits, there would have been ground for despondency as to the amelioration... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 páginas
...Or, if you wait till the impedimenta come up, you may draw your ration of Posca.' What was posca ? It was, in fact, acidulated water ; three parts of...of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate habits, there would have been ground for despondency as to the amelioration... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 318 páginas
...Or, if you wait till the impedimenta come up, you may draw your ration of Posca.' What was posca ? It was, in fact,, acidulated water ; three parts of...of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate habits, there would have been ground for despondency as to the amelioration... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 352 páginas
...latitudes the greatest of our modern nations propagate the contagion to their brothers, though colonising warm climates. And it is remarkable that our modern...of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate habits, there would have been ground for despondency as to the amelioration... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 338 páginas
...Under these marked circumstances of difference between the ruling races of antiquity and of our modem times, it now happens that the greatest era by far...of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate habits, there would have been ground for despondency as to the amelioration... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 358 páginas
...preparations of liquors, even when harmless in their earliest stages, are fitted, like stepping-stones, <br making the transition to higher stages that are not...of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate habits, there would have been ground for despondency as to the amelioration... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 340 páginas
...the intoxicating porter of London, which, under its local name (so insidiously delusive) of " leer" diffuses the most extensive ravages. Under these marked...of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate habits, there would have been ground for despondency as to the amelioration... | |
| Frederic Richard Lees - 1869 - 326 páginas
...summoned to notice, is that which, in our own days, has applied itself to the abatement of Intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action, by velocities...locomotion and social intercourse from the gigantic power of steam. At the opening of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate... | |
| Frederic Richard Lees - 1871 - 296 páginas
...summoned to notice, is that which, in our own days, has applied itself to the abatement of Intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action, by velocities...locomotion and social intercourse from the gigantic power of steam. At the opening of such a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 676 páginas
...the intoxicating porter of London, which, under its local name (so insidiously delusive) of " leer" diffuses the most extensive ravages. Under these marked...have changed the face of the world. At the opening of snch a crisis, had no third movement arisen of resistance to intemperate habits, there would have been... | |
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