What I insist upon is this: Smoking, besides doing its part toward lowering the tone of the bodily health, deadens our sense of other physical evils, and makes us submit to them more patiently.
One of the worst effects of smoking is that it deadens our susceptibility to tedium, and enables us to keep on enduring what we ought to war against and overcome.
These gentlemen of good birth and better taste seldom smoke, as the narcotic stupifying weed deadens papillatory delicacy.
Otherwise, it is apt to adhere and to accumulate, until it deadens the principles of sound action, and obscures the sight.
I think they should visit it rarely; not because it excites their affections, but because it deadens them.
Perish the lore that deadens young desire," Is the soft tenor of my song no more.
It deadens our consciousness, and is but a gradual method of spiritual suicide.
It only gives satisfaction to our intellect, and as it does not appeal to our whole being it only deadens in us the sense of the infinite.
The accompanying ideas of pain and death cover it with a veil of sadness which deadens the imagination and suppresses curiosity; everything leads the mind to the results, not the causes, of child-birth.
Surely it must be that contact with republican institutions deadens a man's sensibilities and affects his memory.
It blights the ambition, deadens the purpose and defeats the very object the worrier has in view.
On the other hand, all are familiar with the truth that bodily activity deadens emotion.
The state of isolation and antagonism produced by frequent punishment, necessarily deadens the sympathies; necessarily, therefore, opens the way to those transgressions which the sympathies check.
Slaveholding, as it most generally exists, darkens the mind, deadens the soul, and brutalizes the affections, of its victims.
That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
Commercial greed deadens the nerves of sympathy of Nations, and makes them deaf to the demands of honor, the impulses of generosity, the appeals of those who suffer under injustice.
The rest I have forgot, for length of years Deadens the sense, and memory impairs.
There is sometimes a little speck of black in the brightest and gayest colours of fortune, which contaminates and deadens the whole.
To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.
Defn: That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
Excessive indulgence in marital pleasuresdeadens all the higher faculties, love included, and results in an utter prostration of the bodily powers.
The protracted presence of feculent matter deadens the sensibility of the intestine, so that great stimulation is required to provoke it to action.
The repeated tasting of one substance rapidly deadens the sensibility, probably by over-stimulation.
The tired man who does not understand the effects of alcohol often supposes that it increases his strength, when in fact it only deadens his sense of fatigue by paralyzing his nerves.
Sensuality contaminates the body depresses the understanding deadens the moral feelings of the heart and degrades man from his rank in creation.
Sensuality contaminates the body, depresses the understanding, deadens the moral feelings of the heart, and degrades man from his rank in creation.
This not only deadens their moral sympathy but also their intellectual sympathy, which is so necessary for the understanding of races which are different from one's own.
Perish the lore that deadens young desire,' Is the soft tenor of my song no more.
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