One thousand temperance anecdotes [&c.] collected and ed. by J.W. KirtonJohn William Kirton 1867 |
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... told of a Yankee skipper and a river pilot . It appears our Yankee friend was well known for his Temperance principles , and before engaging a pilot he was sure to ask about his opinions about teetotalism . As pilots are not generally ...
... told of a Yankee skipper and a river pilot . It appears our Yankee friend was well known for his Temperance principles , and before engaging a pilot he was sure to ask about his opinions about teetotalism . As pilots are not generally ...
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... told him , with a long face , that he had seen a ghost . " When and where ? " said the pastor . " Last night , " replied the man , " I was passing by the church , and up against the wall of it did I behold the spectacle . " " In what ...
... told him , with a long face , that he had seen a ghost . " When and where ? " said the pastor . " Last night , " replied the man , " I was passing by the church , and up against the wall of it did I behold the spectacle . " " In what ...
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... told Mrs. Gray to buy them for me . " Then , kneeling at his mother's feet , he said , " Jesus , I thank you for my new boots . Please make me a good boy , and take care of mother . Amen . " THE CHILDREN'S NET . - Some years ago a ...
... told Mrs. Gray to buy them for me . " Then , kneeling at his mother's feet , he said , " Jesus , I thank you for my new boots . Please make me a good boy , and take care of mother . Amen . " THE CHILDREN'S NET . - Some years ago a ...
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... told her how he had earned it . They both went to the shop and bought tea and sugar , and bread and butter , and all sorts of things with the shilling . It was surprising how much people can buy when they have but little money to spend ...
... told her how he had earned it . They both went to the shop and bought tea and sugar , and bread and butter , and all sorts of things with the shilling . It was surprising how much people can buy when they have but little money to spend ...
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... told you , brother . Let the liquor alone ! " Good reason had he for giving his counsel - liquor had brought him to the felon's doom . Let the boys heed his words - Let the liquor alone ! AFFECTING STORY OF POOR JACK . - A drunkard was ...
... told you , brother . Let the liquor alone ! " Good reason had he for giving his counsel - liquor had brought him to the felon's doom . Let the boys heed his words - Let the liquor alone ! AFFECTING STORY OF POOR JACK . - A drunkard was ...
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Página 80 - Danger! Here, see the smoke bursting out! — go forward, if you would save your lives." Passengers and crew — men, women and children — crowded the forward part of the ship. John Maynard stood at the helm. The flames burst forth in a sheet of fire ; clouds of smoke arose. The captain cried out through his trumpet, "John Maynard!" " Ay, ay, sir ! " " Are you at the helm ? " "Ay, ay, sir!" " How does she head ? "
Página 348 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Página 294 - After this ceremony had passed, Mr. Lincoln remarked to the company, that as an appropriate conclusion to an interview so important and interesting as that which had just transpired, he supposed good manners would require that he should treat the committee with something to drink ; and opening a door that led into a room in the rear, he called out ' Mary ! Mary ! ' A girl responded to the call, to whom Mr.
Página 366 - And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel ? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
Página 420 - ... be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own...
Página 420 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Página 36 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Página 420 - The waters have gone over me. But out of the black depths, could I be heard, I would cry out to all those who have but set a foot in the perilous flood.
Página 278 - John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, A Carrier, who carried his can to his mouth well ; He carried so much, and he carried so fast, He could carry no more — so was...
Página 339 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.