 | Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1828 - 550 pages
...them. An habitual drunkard, when strongly urged by one of his friends to leave off drinking, said, Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were...constantly discharging balls between me and it, I would not refrain from passing before that cannon, in order to get at the rum. " There are many instances,"... | |
 | Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1828 - 348 pages
...them. An habitual drunkard, when strongly urged by one of his friends to leave off' drinking, said, Were a keg- of rum in one corner of a room, and were...constantly discharging balls between me and it, I would not refrain from passing before that cannon, in order to get at the rum. " There are many instances,"... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837 - 510 pages
...years ago in Philadelphia. When strongly urged, by one of his friends, to leave off drinking, he said, 'Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room and were...before that cannon, in order to get at the rum.'" (See in connection with this subject, Vol. I. §. 99.) §. 310. Disordered action of the principle... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1840 - 420 pages
...years ago in Philadelphia. When strongly urged by one of his friends to leave off drinking, he said, ' Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were...passing before that cannon, in order to get at the rum.' " § 170. Further notices on the disorder of the •Appetites. Before leaving this subject we wish... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 538 pages
...ago in Philadelphia. When strongly urged, by one of his friends, to leave off drinking, he said, ' Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were...passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum.' " $ 428. Disordered action of the principle of self-preservation. As \ve advance upward from the Appetites... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 512 pages
...years ago in Philadelphia. When strongly urged by one of his friends to leave off drinking, he said, ' Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were...passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum.' " (See, in connexion with this subject, vol. i., $ 100.) § 310. Disordered action of the principle... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 516 pages
...ago in Philadelphia. When strongly urged, by one of his friends, to leave off drinking, he said, ' Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were...passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum.' " $ 428. Disordered action of the principle of self-preservation. As we advance upward from the Appetites... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1843 - 396 pages
...said, "Were a keg of rum in one corner ot a room, and were a cannon constantly discharging between ше and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum." The pages of history record numerous examples of similar infatuation. /Elian informs us that Dionysius... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 pages
...years ago in Philadelphia. When strongly urged by one of his friends to leave off drinking, he said, ' Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were...passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum.' " (See, in connexion with this subject, vol. i., § 100.) $ 310. Disordered action of the principle... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 494 pages
...ago in Philadelphia. When strongly urged, by one of his friends, to leave off drinking, he said, ' Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were...cannon constantly discharging balls between me and it, 1 could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum.' " $ 428. Disordered... | |
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Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were a cannon constantly discharging balls between me and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum. 
