Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ascendant. The American treatment of the natives was throughout cruel and unjust. They called them bad names and tried every possible means to make them feel that they were as degraded as they were painted. The course of social conservatism was advanced by the very existence of political sin, because the personal ambitions of various leaders were pitted against each other and the result was often not so very bad. The progress of San Francisco was identical with that of the whole state. In 1848 it was a little village of four or five hundred inhabitants. In five years...
...theft," when once proved were quickly dealt with. There was a brief period of a wide-spread, well organized society, yet it did not last, for it was not founded on moral instinct which is a necessary foundation of all stable order. The treason of carelessness was the greatest sin of the early Californian, and for it he was obliged to severely atone...
GLOBE THEATRE. - "Wages of Sin...
...Higginson spoke first. He did not think drinking intoxicants a sin in itself, like murder and theft. Nobody can call it such a sin. Some claim that intoxicants sharpen the wits, which is not so, and is couriously inconsistent with common facts. Often at our dinners the brightest speeches are made by the cold water men. Following are reasons for total abstinence, (1) every young man should seek to make the best of himself and avoid all the risks (which are great) of intemperance; (2), he should aim at simplicity of habits, striking the key of his life moderately...
...defects had debarred many from the service. So young men to-day entering into the war of life may be kept from success by small temptations and weakness. The struggle of life requires physical and brain power, as well as the loftiest kind of morality. Drinking is more a sin against self, a sin like gluttony, licentiousness. The brain not only rules the body but it is dependent upon the body; so that an injury to one injures the other. Drinking is largely the first cause which fills prisons and asylums. Drink is a sin against others, against mothers, sisters...