He says of the King, He bore his Faculties so meekly; and justly inferred from thence, That all divine and human Power would join to avenge his Death, who had made such an abstinent Use of Dominion.
By adopting an abstinent plan of diet, even to a degree that produces a sensation of want in the System, we do that which is most likely to create appetite and increase the powers of digestion.
Rush mentions a patient of his who thought himself wonderfully abstinentbecause he drank no spirituous or fermented liquors, except a bottle of wine or so, after dinner!
I mean an old ecclesiastic who should have led a very pure, abstinent life.
Mr. Wentworth looked at her, painfully at a loss; and in so far as the signs of a pure and abstinent life were visible in his face they were then probably peculiarly manifest.
I exhort thee," replied he, "to be an abstinent possessor in this world and a greedy slave in the next.
Mohammed said, "The abstinent man in this world possesses both this world and the world to come.
The absorption in thoughts about meals and in literary descriptions of meals is clearly analogous to the abstinent man's absorption in wanton thoughts and erotic books.
Her fits of struggling and rolling on the ground are precisely like the outbursts of futile desire which occasionally occur to young abstinent men and women in health and strength.
If our young people will remain abstinent and avoid extra-conjugal intercourse they will maintain a high ideal of love and preserve themselves from venereal diseases.
Jentsch thus expresses what he conceives ought to be the attitude of fathers, of public opinion, of the State and the Church towards the young man in this matter: "Endeavor to be abstinent until marriage.
The voluptuary is subject to diseases, but theabstinent is free from them; for in the midst of pleasure there is pain).
The minds of the abstinent are mortified, with their bodies and vitality, for want of food and enjoyments; and then there remains the consciousness of the transcendent one alone.
