Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border of the precipice where the arch enemy of souls finds his greatest hunting ground. It is the first step then that is accountable for all. Once make yourself a drunkard, and drunkenness does not appear as base to you as before...
...seriously the worse for habits of drinking. Since then, especially since the foundation of the Hemenway gymnasium, the vice has rapidly diminished. At present, Professor Shaler, whose acquaintance extends to perhaps half the students in the university, does not know of a single one who can be called a drunkard. The use of tobacco he also finds to have largely diminished, and even the use of tea and coffee is much less than formerly...
...laugh at drunkenness-very good; it is often laughable. But also, it is most horrible and terrible. How many drunkards have committed murders How many talented men have been ruined by drink! The drunkard loses all control of himself; character, love, perception, memory, all are gone, and the once man is but a brute...
BOSTON MUSEUM.-"The Drunkard." Performance...
BOSTON MUSEUM.-"The Drunkard." Performance...