Few parts of the Constitution have been assailed with moreintemperance than this; yet on a fair investigation of it, no part can appear more completely invulnerable.
The problem of intemperance meets us in less than half the families that we know," says the Secretary of the Boston Associated Charities, "but it is that half which gives us the most concern.
How many groundless opinions and absurd institutions have not received a general sanction from the sottishness and intemperance of individuals!
I am now pretty well convinced, from two or three years' observation, that a large portion of my business, as a physician, arises from intemperance in the use of food.
The want of prisons, or places of punishment, and the indolence and intemperance of emancipist settlers, endangered authority.
No regulations or punishments could hinder their haunting the tents, or deter them from intemperance and consequent miseries.
But the habitual intemperance had exacted even from his iron constitution its forfeit of shakiness in the morning, and the rare sobriety left the man suffering and unstrung.
Aristotle maintains that the pleasure with which intemperance is concerned is justly held in disgrace, "since it belongs to us in that we are animals, not in that we are men.
If these attempts to encourage soberness produced any change for the better, it could only have been temporary; for some time afterwards intemperance was carried to its greatest excess through the practice and example of the Danes.
The Penitentials tell us the tale of universal intemperance more effectively than any description of it could do.
At higher stages of cultureintemperance often subject to censure, p.
Intemperance among invalids is said to be greatly on the increase from the use of these wines.
It is well known that a single act of intemperance during the prevalence of cholera, will often produce a fatal attack.
He administered total abstinence pledges to half the people in the country, and intemperance in drink, with its attendant evils and misery, almost disappeared from Ireland.
In so doing they did their part toward securing the observance of the national holy day that should not be marred by intemperance among the people.
The Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance is composed of delegates from nearly all of the many temperance societies in Ireland, both Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Nonconformist, and Independent.
In order to lessen intemperance from conviviality an anti-treating movement was started a few years ago.
Intemperance was an evil, to be sure; but even intemperance had its humorous side in those days, and Pinetucky was apt to look at the humorous side.
Travelling in the South for pleasure, some time ago, he was immediately struck with the comparative absence of intemperance among the slaves.
Chiefly, we are told, because of poverty; and of all causes of poverty, is not intemperance the greatest?
I mean an audience of men and women who have come to see intemperance to be the great curse of this our age and land, and who have resolved to abstain themselves from all intoxicating drink, and to encourage others to do so as well.
They are reared in ignorance, surrounded by demoralizing influences, cut off from the blessings of church and Sabbath school, see nothing but licentiousness, intemperance and crime.
Some may be ready to affirm that physical and moral penalties do not appear to overtake all men; that many men known to be given to intemperance and sensuality are strong, well, and live to a good age.
The reports of hospitals for lunatics almost universally assign intemperance as one of the causes which predispose a man's offspring to insanity.
Therefore heartlessness or impenitence after sorrow is more dangerous than intemperance in joy; its results are always more tragic.
The wife had fallen into habits of intemperance by this time, and stage by stage she had descended to the condition of an utterly degraded woman.
Mr. Munn's jumping Bible, and of a drunken man punished for his intemperance by being lifted off his legs by an invisible hand!
Every man had some calling to occupy his attention; instances of idleness or intemperance were of rare occurrence; the most perfect subordination prevailed, and all appeared contented and happy.
In the same manner I say, that temperance and exercise are the two great preservers of health, and restorers of it when it is lost; and that the art of reconciling intemperance and health is as chimerical, as washing the Ethiopian white.
In any case the saloon and its humiliating indecency must disappear and every temptation to intemperance should be removed.
Intemperance has blighted the homes of millions, and weeping and wailing have been incessant!
How signally the Almighty displeasure at intemperanceis expressed, when the very drink which imparts the mad pleasure of intoxication is made the direct instrument by which the drunkard is destroyed!
And when I attempted to expostulate with him, he took the subject out of my hands, and expatiating on the evils of intemperance more eloquently than I could, concluded by warning me, with tears, to avoid the snares of the latter.
Is not intemperance more social, more inflammatory, more pugnacious where a fancied superiority of gentlemanly character is felt in consequence of exemption from severe manual labor?
Of this wild but not unreasonable intemperance Pitt, it is scarcely necessary to say, was the mouthpiece.
Hence, a person who breaks the fast in order to lead his neighbor into a like transgression is guilty of both intemperance and scandal; he who to make his neighbor sin appears to break the fast, is guilty of scandal, but not of intemperance.
Thus, the fact that an alms is used by the recipient as a means to intemperance does not detract from the goodness of the almsgiving done for the sake of charity.
Thus, he who breaks the fast before others to satisfy his own appetite, does not directly wish the corruption of those others, and hence his sin is that of intemperance with the added circumstance of bad example.
In the Decalogue the vices of intemperance that are most directly opposed to the love of God and the neighbor (I Tim.
Thus, he who breaks the fast because he saw others break the fast, is guilty of the same sin of intemperance as those who gave him scandal.
