We saw at Wahoo about thirty of these white inhabitants, for the most part, people of no character, and who had remained on the islands either from indolence, or from drunkenness and licentiousness.
Although the general principle that drunkenness is not an excuse for crime is still steadily maintained (see Russell, Crimes, 6th ed.
There remains the question how far drunkenness itself is a crime.
So far only the question whether drunkenness is an excuse for offences committed under its influence has been dealt with.
Barret felt all his blood suddenly rise to his head; his drunkenness came back on him again.
In a short time, his laboured snores of drunkenness sounded among the green straight stalks.
His counter was the watch-tower from which, as an expert critic, he watched the drunkenness of his customers.
No doubt his drunkenness is an offence; but it is comparatively innocuous to the general public.
He has issued a book of rules and conditions under which these allotments are held, and he thus places a strong check upon drunkenness and dissolute habits, indulgence in which is a sure way to lose the portions of ground.
And so I was not taught in early youth to guard Myself from drunkenness of wrath!
Meseems I wear a robe to which the pest And horrid traces of wilddrunkenness And wilder nights are clinging, and I cannot Put off the robe, but all my flesh goes too.
Societies are formed which regard drunkenness as the principal cause of the evils under which the State labors, and which solemnly bind themselves to give a constant example of temperance.
It punishes idleness anddrunkenness with severity.
It was not frenzy, it was not merely the drunkenness of strong emotion in a heart unused to it, that now wrought upon the bride.
A temperance lecturer saw him, and wrought poor David into the texture of his evening's discourse as an awful instance of dead drunkenness by the roadside.
But they were the victims of a pernicious system, as fully as were the poor, shambling, ragged wretches of the streets and slums, who had been ground down by their acts into drunkenness and crime.
That personage is constantly watched by spies; but he spends his time in drunkenness and deeds of folly; and his enemies laugh and say, 'He will never trouble us; he will be dead soon.
You were warned by Messer Gonzaga to hold your followers in better leash, and yet to-day, without so much as drunkenness to excuse them, we have this vile affair, with yourself for a ringleader in it.
Touching theirdrunkenness and the trifle of rioting, what soldiers have not these faults?
Surely it is infinite condescension in God to visit the abode of drunkenness and filth with the rich blessings of salvation; but who can doubt his ability, and willingness to do it?
In addition to all my drunkenness and profanity, all my abuse of widows and orphans, and all my grinding the face of the poor, I have been--Oh!
Sobriety may be ranked among their virtues, as drunkenness only forms a part of certain religious festivals, and in their gambling they are the most moderate of barbarians.
Herrera describes them as fierce and warlike, much given to drunkenness and other sins, but generous and hospitable.
Unacquainted with intoxicating liquors, they yet find drunkenness in the fumes of a certain herb smoked through a stone tube, and used chiefly during their festivals.
Looking at the darker side, it is found thatdrunkenness stands preëminent, and if the native is not oftener drunk, it is because the means for carousing are wanting.
This does not include the cases of drunkenness or kindred offences which come before magistrates and are summarily disposed of.
Per consequence by eleven at night the gentle maids are in a condition highly satisfactory to the house, for their drunkenness represents so much money in his till.
During all that long day and still longer night, not a single case of drunkenness did I see, and during that time I was in a great many different places, and would have seen it had there been any.
The illuminations were not on a scale grand enough to merit all this outpouring of people, this great hubbub, this drunkenness and gin-incited hilarity.
I made a point of investigating this very thoroughly, for in days past I have seen some drunkenness and the effects thereof.
Drunkenness is impossible on these innocent liquids.
I don't want any man to say this is not so, for I assert that drunkenness is comparatively unknown in the two countries where wine and beer are the staple drinks of the people of all classes.
Drunkenness is not the result either of conviviality or desperation as it is in other countries.
They could tolerate a certain degree of drunkenness and demoralization in their representative, but Ridley had fallen too low.
My drunkenness would have stood as a warning against me.
The young man, having received his portion from his Father, went into a far country, and spent all his substance in drunkenness and debauchery.
Men will not tolerate drunkenness in their wives; and women will not tolerate it in husbands unless compelled to.
There were two great vices in existence--drunkenness and licentiousness--and in both, woman was the victim of man in the majority of cases.
Combe was a teetotaller in the days when drunkenness was in fashion, and was remarkable for disinterestedness and industry.
The King and Queen and their suite were wantonly charged with gluttony and drunkennessby persons who ought to have known better.
Porson's imitations of Horace, which appeared in the Morning Chronicle, have really no merit at all, nor have any of the hundred and one epigrams which he is said to have written in one night upon the drunkenness of Mr. Pitt.
Sour is thy breath, foul art then to embrace; Thy tongue is lost, and all thine honest care, For drunkenness is very sepulture Of man's wit and his discretion.
All the ne'er-do-wells there were in this section streamed in, and drunkenness and fighting were what the parson heard talked of continually.
It was probably done in the drunkenness and delirium.
In three weeks he had consumed all his stock of ardent spirits, but his continual drunkenness only lulled his terror, which awoke more furiously than ever, as soon as it was impossible for him to calm it.
As I was going back to my lodgings, being rather drunk myself, with a cheerful Machiavelian drunkenness which quite satisfied all my instincts of skepticism, an idea struck me.
Drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above them.
Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort.
It was hard to get volunteers for Oswego, largely owing to the abominable drunkenness of the officers there, and the lack of good discipline.
Fortunately, through the thoughtfulness of the future hero of Bennington, his own rangers were kept sober by enforced total abstinence, and the Irish had the rum and drunkennessall to themselves.
He has paid dear for his fault, for I am sure that drunkenness shortened his life; he could not keep from drinking, and he burnt up his body.
Drunkenness is but too much the fashion among the young women; but just now they are all in a state of complete satisfaction.
A Lapp sleeps wherever fatigue or drunkenness overcomes him, preferring the ground, but often lying on the snow.
Nevertheless, the people are what we call in America hard drinkers, though little absolute drunkenness was observable.
We saw scarcely any indications of intemperance here, and were assured by an intelligent resident that there had been much less drunkenness since this system had been adopted twelve years ago.
