Notes and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission, Principally Among the Dens of London |
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Page 172
... drinking usages of society oppose an in- superable barrier to the moral and religious improvement of the labouring classes - and in- deed , in proportion as they prevail , of all classes of society . These customs must be changed before ...
... drinking usages of society oppose an in- superable barrier to the moral and religious improvement of the labouring classes - and in- deed , in proportion as they prevail , of all classes of society . These customs must be changed before ...
Page 173
... drinking habits I have found not more to possess the power to drink * Pope's Iliad , book vi . , 320 . short of actual drunkenness , and there stop , than INTEMPERANCE . 173.
... drinking habits I have found not more to possess the power to drink * Pope's Iliad , book vi . , 320 . short of actual drunkenness , and there stop , than INTEMPERANCE . 173.
Page 174
... drink . " She returned when she left prison , as she well knew , to a neighbourhood where invitation and temptation to intoxication would meet her at almost every step . It was affecting to hear a fellow - creature observe , that in ...
... drink . " She returned when she left prison , as she well knew , to a neighbourhood where invitation and temptation to intoxication would meet her at almost every step . It was affecting to hear a fellow - creature observe , that in ...
Page 177
... will you give me a penny loaf instead of the drink ? " " No ; but I'll treat you hand- somely if you like . ” Such is a melancholy sample of the conversation common between those N who , to use their own language , " are INTEMPERANCE . 177.
... will you give me a penny loaf instead of the drink ? " " No ; but I'll treat you hand- somely if you like . ” Such is a melancholy sample of the conversation common between those N who , to use their own language , " are INTEMPERANCE . 177.
Page 178
... drink which should have been laid out in food . All forms of vice and misery run into one another , and act by replication . On my first appointment to the Cow Cross District , in conjunction with good friends , I was made instrumental ...
... drink which should have been laid out in food . All forms of vice and misery run into one another , and act by replication . On my first appointment to the Cow Cross District , in conjunction with good friends , I was made instrumental ...
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