How To Use Intemperance In A Sentence
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When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument.
Revolution, and Other Essays
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Later reactions against the Canon were a recognition of the intemperance of behaviorism.
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Societies are formed to resist evils that are exclusively of a moral nature, as to diminish the vice of intemperance.
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When A. came to take in her liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared.
Waverley — Volume 1
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Intemperance in food will cause the rapid descent into degredation of one who has previously lived decently.
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He is 18 and has time on his side, but as we have seen in the intemperance of his play, patience is not one of his virtues.
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This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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When we do not use our time distinctly then intemperance, intolerance and imprudence turn out to be our masters.
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The intemperance of that high dignitary and his priests filled me with an unspeakable horror and disgust.
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Now, as to this disease of intemperance, which is a social and moral as well as
Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink
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Many men fancy that the slight injuries done by each single act of intemperance, are like the glomeration of moonbeams upon moonbeams -- myriads will not amount to
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
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Certainly, all parties agreed on the pernicious effects of intemperance, and its tendency to promote domestic violence and discord.
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By his lying, stupidity and intemperance Lee has tarnished the club's image and caused embarrassment to supporters.
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The French have largely retained their ancient sober habit (save for the unhappy introduction of the afternoon "aperitif"), but the English have shown a tendency to abandon their intemperance of excess in favour of an opposed intemperance, and instead of drinking till they fall under the table have sometimes developed a passion for not drinking at all.
Impressions and Comments
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Given these attitudes, they are prone to a number of vices, including lack of generosity, cowardice, and intemperance.
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To defend her intemperance, she publicly impugned my personal and professional integrity.
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But their campaigns also assisted the temperance movement in its quest to curb intemperance.
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Since Woodbury does not think abstinence to be the cure of intemperance, could he not justify his practice by a higher principle than self-indulgence, lay it on a deeper foundation than dilettanteism?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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His wife often admonished him of the danger of tampering with the deadly vice of intemperance, but he only laughed at what he termed her idle fears.
Stories and Sketches
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Intemperance, in the use of ardent spirits, is now, and it is feared will long remain, a fruitful source of pauperism and misery.
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[T] he insults, the blows, the murders which flow in such awful profusion from the intemperance of husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, fall with heaviest, most crushing force upon woman.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
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It's the opposite of a quiet death - it's death by intemperance, spite, righteous anger, the nausea of revulsion.
SPLITTING
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They are zealous in the work and are casting their whole influence towards the redemption of society from the thralldom of intemperance.
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Health does not consist with intemperance.
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Strange to say, also, for one of that lithe race, his person was heavy and hebetudinous; the consequence, no doubt, of habitual intemperance.
Rookwood
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This is surprising, for contemporary opinion held that women as well as men succumbed to intemperance.
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Noel thought of herself as a `Victorian," meaning, most likely, that she did not brook self-indulgence, laziness, or intemperance.
ISAAC CAMPION
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The ladies are determined to persevere and carry on this work steadily and earnestly, until intemperance shall be conquered as slavery has been.
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Intemperance is the parent of many evils.
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Their buoyant philosophy has been described as "pleasure without intemperance, hospitality without rudeness and jollity without coarseness."
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Given these attitudes, they are prone to a number of vices, including lack of generosity, cowardice, and intemperance.
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He becomes so absorbed in trying to interpret the allegory of the voyage of life that he fails to recognize the intemperance of his own course.
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A close reading of the newspaper and pamphlet sources reveals fault lines between existing and emerging ways of understanding and discussing intemperance, violence, and gender.
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Though in his youth he had been much addicted to intemperance and licentious pleasures, after he had ranked himself among philosophers he was never known to violate the laws of sobriety or chastity.
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My Sentence Shelby Donald stood among the remains of last night's argument, the third in as many days, when she realized she was caught in a brachistochrone problem of no small significant for no matter how loudly she availed upon the God's of better judgement her inbreed intemperance demanded satisfaction and would always gravitate her towards the most mercurial of men.
Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed
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the intemperance of their language
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Therefore intemperance, which is overcome by pleasure, is a less grievous sin than cowardice, which is overcome by fear.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Health do not consist with intemperance.
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And though they call intemperance the being governed by pleasures, yet it happens to them that, by being mastered by some pleasures, they master others, and this is similar to what was just now said, that in a certain manner they become temperate through intemperance.
Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates
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It was his intemperance which made him deaf to the appeals of Haemon, and which led him to disregard till it was too late the warnings of Teiresias; it was his intemperance which was his ruin.
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Was it perhaps a warning about female intemperance, an early forerunner of Mother's Ruin?
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For excess of sentiment, like all other intemperance, is the mark of that unsober and unsteady beast -- the crowd.
Old Calabria
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They felt the lash of the conservative reporters, columnists and pundits, whose intemperance was moderated by neither truth nor reason.
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Both looked "sickly, pale, and emaciated, from a long course of intemperance," despite respectable attire and some signs of formal education.
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Much early nineteenth-century discussion of female intemperance centered on the damage it did to family life.
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I am not more straight-laced than many people, yet I confess it always gives me a kind of twinge to see a young man yielding to intemperance of any kind.
Alone
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The Quaker was a fresh-faced old man who had never been ill, because he had never known passions or intemperance.
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In fact, opinions among the membership regarding alcohol and intemperance were far from unanimous.
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_On the contrary, _ The Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 12) that "we apply the term intemperance* to childish faults.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Rovers are expected to be clean minded, clean willed and able to control intemperance and lead morally upright lives.
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Then he let me exonerate Harold from the charge of intemperance, pointing out that not even after the injury and operation, nor after yesterday's cold and fatigue, had he touched any liquor; but I don't think the notion of teetotalism was gratifying, even when I called it
My Young Alcides
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It is the sign associated with intemperance and a craving for emotional excitement and sensuality.
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When A. came to take in her liquor, she found the tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her ` ` browst '' had disappeared.
The Waverley
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Health does not consist with intemperance.
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Nor yet is it the desperate madness which impels an immortal being in pursuit of substantial good amid the dehumanizing slums of beastly sensuosity; nor firey floods of intemperance; nor yet the desolating waves of red-visaged war, after which this earnest mission is sent.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M.
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Many of those who abstain consider smoking a sign of weakness or intemperance.
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Health does not consist with intemperance.
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All I have to impress upon you is, to beware of intemperance, which is very prevalent in this country, and when you find it convenient, to pay Government the money that was allowed you for subsistence while in prison. '
For the term of his natural life
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But now has this little embryo strength enough to thrust itself into the world? to hold up its head, and to maintain its course to a perfect maturity, against all the assaults and batteries of intemperance; all the snares and trepans that common life lays in its way to extinguish and suppress it?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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Nature offers a healing medicine, and arrests the death which his intemperance has provoked.
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In short, her husband's intemperance caused her affliction.
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Incontinence is a term applied only by analogy in the case of the latter; its proper concern -- as with the moral vice, which we call intemperance -- is with the former.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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Political intemperance is traditionally the province of the young.
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Health does not consist with intemperance.
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But this state of joyous tranquillity was not of long duration: I had scarce begun my breakfast, when my ears were saluted with a genteel whistle, and the noise of a pair of slippers descending the staircase; and soon after I beheld a contrast to my former prospect, being a very beauish gentleman, with a huge laced hat on, as big as Pistol's in the play; a wig somewhat dishevelled, and a face which at once gave you a perfect idea of emptiness, assurance, and intemperance.
The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12
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Thus, activists in the railroad brotherhoods, together with the wives and sisters of organized railwaymen based in the women's auxiliaries, turned their attention to the problem of masculine intemperance.
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In climates where wine is a rarity intemperance abounds.
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In all these cases the idea of intemperance is excluded.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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This intemperance was rather curious for a group that wanted to lead intellectually when it came to political awareness.
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This intemperance, so prevalent, depraves the appetite to such a degree, that a wanton stimulus is necessary to rouse it; but the parental design of nature is forgotten, and the mere person, and that for a moment, alone engrosses the thoughts.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Lee recognized, as he wrote to Richard Henry Lee in September, that Thomas Morris was “actually in a continual state of madness from inebriety and intemperance.”
Robert Morris
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And I spoze he wuz so full of his great life work aginst that gigantick evil Intemperance, that them ideas had to flow out when the plug of silence wuz removed.
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands
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In our last war the sword devoured but five hundred a year: intemperance destroys two hundred a week.
Select Temperance Tracts
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His wife often admonished him of the danger of tampering with the deadly vice of intemperance; but he only laughed at what he termed her idle fears.
The Path of Duty, and Other Stories
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Serepta Pester sent these errents to you, she wanted intemperance done away with, the Whiskey Ring broke up and destroyed, she wanted you to have nothin 'stronger than root beer when you had company to dinner, she offerin' to send you some burdock and dandeline roots and some emptins to start it with, and she wanted her rights, and wanted 'em all by week after next without fail.
Samantha on the Woman Question
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The word intemperance is generally employed as applying to the abuse of strong drinks.
Life and Conduct
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Intemperance is nine-tenths the cause of murder, criminality and pauperism, the insanity of powerful minds -- minds which might have moulded and shaped the opinions of nations -- and could we but redeem the financial results of this black demon, and call the slumbering drunkards from their graves, we might repeople an empty world, make states, build kingdoms, erect religious and social institutions, and dedicate them to the honor and glory of God.
History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the Centennial Celebration, Addresses, Sermons, Etc.
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_To use wine in wine countries, therefore, is essentially the same thing as to use cider in cider countries_; and it does not appear that the one, in such cases, is much more productive of intemperance than the other.
Select Temperance Tracts
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Sad memory brings up our last meeting, and when the subject of his intemperance was the theme of our parting conversation.
The Memories of Fifty Years
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Then they live in close communities, and marry "in-and-in," so that the effect of unhealthy living becomes strengthened into hereditary disease; and habitual intemperance does its work upon their constitutions, though the quantities of raw spirits they consume appear to produce scarcely any immediate effect.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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An intemperate man has strong temptation to plead: he began with conviviality, and only arrives at solitary intemperance as the ultimate degradation.
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Before about 1830, temperance sermons, tracts and addresses routinely broached female intemperance.
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Can he be sure that his appetites will not lead him to gluttony, intemperance or sensuality?
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The purposes of civil associations vary: to plan public festivals, to combat moral evils such as intemperance, or, most important, to carry out some industrial or commercial undertaking.
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It would have formed an amusement to the circle at Merton, if intemperance were set down to the master of the house, who always so prematurely cut short the sederunt of the gentlemen after dinner.
The Life of Nelson
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The jury at the inquest returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, and were of the opinion that the cause of death ensued upon continued habits of intemperance.
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Here, at home, is the chief source of that wide-spread ruin by intemperance, that is every year robbing society of thousands of young men, who, by education, culture, and social standing are fitted for useful and honorable positions.
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