How To Use Temperance 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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Like the temperance movement, antiporn activism mistook a symptom of male dominance for the cause.
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(The latter she calls a "prohibition lecture" -- hating the word temperance, as applied to drink.) She said words, such as had probably not been heard by most of those there, for a great many years.
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
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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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It was this temperance and self-restraint that led to Mendes being noticed in Hollywood.
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It was founded in 870 as a cooperative farm and temperance center and named for its patron, Horace Greeley. Population, '0,53'.
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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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By contrast, a Scottish artiste might play to sodden Glasgow shipwrights, a restrained middle class audience and a temperance rally in the same week.
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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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The crowd received sheets of lyrics composed by two temperance advocates and set to popular tunes.
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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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Aunt Temperance!" called out Aubrey from the doorstep, "you shall have my horse, if you will; I am going in the caroche.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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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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Wisdom is the mother of kindness, temperance and tolerance. Dr T.P.Chia
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As provincial of his order, he addressed temperance meetings throughout Ireland.
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Let no man's greatness be a bar to full utterance; but let temperance and charity -- duties peculiarly imperative when uttering derogatory truth -- be especially observed towards a resplendent suffering brother like Coleridge, suffering from his own weakness, but on that very account entitled to a tenderer consideration from those who are themselves endowed to feel and claim something more than common human affinity with a nature so large and so susceptive.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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The Temperance Society, an organisation in which people pledged to be teetotal, was first established in 1832.
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Prohibition—the legislated imposition of teetotalism on the unwilling—was an idea that had been lurking beneath the earnest pieties of the temperance movement and was transformed in the late 1840s into a rallying cry.
LAST CALL
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Indeed, he mounts a mild harangue against the temperance movement, which he argues ‘may preach till doom's day; and still this cold and barren world will look warmer, kindlier, mellower, through the medium of a toper's glass’.
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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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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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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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And see you not how the mighty engine of _moral power_ is dragging in its rear the Bible and peace societies, anti-slavery and temperance, sabbath schools, moral reform, and missions? or to adopt another figure, do not these seven philanthropic associations compose the beautiful tints in that bow of promise which spans the arch of our moral heaven?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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It was formed in 1901 as part of the Temperance Movement a series of Victorian religious and political pressure groups advocating teetotalism.
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In this way, the previously taboo subject of domestic violence suddenly began appearing in temperance journals and publications.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
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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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His teachings included temperance, being thankful to the Creator, merciful to children and the poor, and the evil of greed and pride.
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Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or
Over the Teacups
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A devout Calvinist Methodist and strict advocate of temperance, Davies became a patron of Nonconformist and other charitable and educational causes.
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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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The age of hedonism is being ushered out by a new era of temperance.
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Government, they insisted, had a duty to help the people effect their individual self-improvement, by enacting temperance reform and by building reformatories, asylums, and new-model prisons (all of which required public taxation).
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The temperance movement was at its peak at the end of the 19th century.
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Gone are the days when virtues like faith, patience, temperance, knowledge, virtue, godliness, brotherly kindness and love, once fuelled our moral tanks.
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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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Of these, then," he said, "are not they the most happy, and do they not go to the best place, who have practiced that social and civilized virtue which they call temperance and justice, and which is produced from habit and exercise, without philosophy and reflection?
Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates
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A cure was effected in this case by tonics, temperance, regulation of the diet, etc. In Tome xv of the Commentaries of Leipzig there is an account of a man who always had his stercoral evacuations on Wednesdays, and who suffered no evil consequences from this abnormality.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
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As a man he is high-spirited and energetic, always ready to fight for his Sultan, his country and, especially, his Faith: courteous and affable, rarely failing in temperance of mind and self-respect, self-control and self-command: hospitable to the stranger, attached to his fellow citizens, submissive to superiors and kindly to inferiors — if such classes exist: Eastern despotisms have arrived nearer the idea of equality and fraternity than any republic yet invented.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the 19th century, the temperance and sanitation movements led many Protestants to replace wine and chalice with individual communion cups and grape juice.
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To defend her intemperance, she publicly impugned my personal and professional integrity.
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That is the reason why the temperance movement had support not only in the chapels but in the Chartist movement and later trade unions.
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The temperance advocates got strong support from the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Anglican churches.
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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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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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In the 1830s, a third movement, the teetotal movement, emerged and radicalized temperance reform in two ways.
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It was founded in1870 as a cooperative farm and temperance center and named for its patron, Horace Greeley. Population, 60, 536.
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Temperance is the greatest of virtues.
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On the other hand, the temperance narrative confines perception, and thus representation, within the limits of its own ideology.
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Temperance halls were set ablaze, sometimes by lone arsonists but often by volunteer Irish “fire companies.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Temperance Brennan leads us down a delicate spiderweb of metaphors and adjectives, all of which make you forget that you're reading about osteology and decomposition.
Archive 2007-07-01
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Abner! "and he called his sallow-faced companion, who was already arguing salvation and temperance with some of the crew.
Hawaii
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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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For beyond-the-pale rhetoric it's hard to beat Carry Nation, the God-fearing temperance zealot she used a hatchet (and hammers, rocks and bricks) to attack saloons in the first decade of the 20th century who celebrated the assassination of President William O. McKinley in 1901 by calling him a "whey-faced tool of Republican thieves, rummies and devils.
Temperance Tantrum
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There are both striking parallels and important differences between the contemporary war on drink and drugs and the old temperance crusade.
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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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Temperance groups - as devoted to their cause as were the drinkers - did their best and often succeeded in persuading boozers that strong drink was their undoing.
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Attention to respectability and temperance offers a way to understand how gender and class shaped collective action and how workingmen and women incorporated their gender identities and interests into the institutions they built.
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The movement often took the form of a religious revival and was referred to as a crusade: one teetotal group was even included with the churches by the religious census of 1851, along with temperance Wesleyans and temperance Christians.
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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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And I in very deed, so much as lay in me, haue in all places moderated my selfe, and haue bene desirous to abstaine from reproches but if any man thinke, we should haue vsed more temperance in our stile, I trust, the former reason will content him.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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He wrote to a friend, the author of "Edge Hill," in Richmond, that he had quite overcome "the seductive and dangerous besetment" by which he had so often been prostrated, and to another friend that, incredible as it might seem, he had become a "model of temperance," and of "other virtues," which it had sometimes been difficult for him to practice.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Let it be perpetually remembered to the credit of this apostle of alimentation and vitativeness with temperance, that, in his religious system, eating was a 'sacramental' process, and not a physical indulgence merely, as the ignorant allege.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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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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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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It is as though you were to take a man into a cellar where there was a vast collection of what we call temperance drinks, and what the Americans call soft drinks.
Belloc Speaks - The Schools
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Intent on removing alcohol from every table, temperance reformers across America made water the rallying symbol and principal icon of their movement.
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The temperance movement was at its peak at the end of the 19th century.
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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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Cook's beginnings in 1841, as an organizer of temperance excursions on English Midland railroads, may be well known.
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The appearance of temperance societies, sometimes supported by the medical establishment, caused many to re-evaluate the role of wine in diet and medicine.
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The rhetoric combined the moral style of bourgeois temperance advocacy with an emphasis on alcohol's impact on the man and the family.
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Dietary temperance, or moderation, was a way to health, but it was also a virtue, just as gluttony was a vice.
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Both men married and led families with multiple children, resided (at least part of the time) in journeymen's neighborhoods within close proximity to other trade unionists, and seemed to live rather stable lives while supporting temperance, antislavery, and moral reform.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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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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The nascent temperance movement, too, is suggested by the rotund whiskey jug placed prominently in the foreground.
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Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
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This is surprising, for contemporary opinion held that women as well as men succumbed to intemperance.
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And if any offer of alliance or parley of individual elders comes from home, the false spirits shut the gates of the castle and permit no one to enter, — there is a battle, and they gain the victory; and straightway making alliance with the desires, they banish modesty, which they call folly, and send temperance over the border.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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I do not say that all lamas drink, but to say that the majority of them are not only addicted to drink but also to gluttony is not at all wide of the truth, and this despite the teachings of Buddha on temperance and self-control.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Not all of these poets had poetic values as classically Horatian as Ryan's "temperance and sobriety of invention."
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Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
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Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather than particular virtues (e.g. justice, temperance, etc.)..
Jon Aquino's Mental Garden
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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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While temperance reform aimed to abolish the manufacture and sale of alcohol, its goals were not rooted in religious anti-liquor fervors, but on the rights of women and children whose lives were ruined by unemployable and violent drunken men.
Dr. Caroline Cicero: Women's Rights -- 91 Years and Still Pedaling a Stationary Bicycle
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It is of no avail to preach temperance and teetotalism to these people.
DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
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Later, however, changing tastes and pressure from temperance advocates dictated that absinthe be diluted with water, preferably sweetened.
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Livesey started a popular temperance movement, attracting followers including John Turner, who coined the phrase "teetotal".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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To this end, he cajoled thousands of Irish New Yorkers to join temperance organizations and helped establish the Irish Emigrant Society, which placed immigrants in jobs and then monitored their diligence and commitment to the “work ethic.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Or here as an an argument against teetotalism (though since the book was printed by the Scottish Temperance League, probably not intended as a successful one): Fire is a dangerous thing, abused.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force”
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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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Saints must have lived an exemplary life, displaying the virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice, as well as showing faith, hope and charity.
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Machiavelli's suggestion, for example, that a prince "not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained," must be appreciated in context. 140 Although political and military leaders were exhorted to virtues of constancy and temperance, the late quattrocento (and early cinquecento) was not a juste milieu, as Machiavelli illustrates:
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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They also passed a law that public officeholders possess the moral characteristics of ‘piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality.’
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Pearl is an out and out believer in temperance and woman suffrage, and before she was through, she had every one with her – as one man put it, he'd like to see the women vote, if for nothing else than to get Pearl Watson into
Purple Springs
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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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Simply knowing that these philosophers taught temperance and self-mastery doesn't convey to us any tools for temperance and self-mastery.
You are not the boss of you
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Murrin laughed at my use of the word temperance, but then he peered at me, trying to see if I was serious or not since I didn't smile or join him in laughter, but my sunglasses hid my eyes, so he wasn't sure.
Wake Up, Sir!
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The modern form of temperance has a wider target, taking in drugs and tobacco as well as the demon drink.
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Compared to moderate drinking, teetotalling is actually bad for your health, notwithstanding the odious and coercive nannyism the Temperance Movement prefers.
People are drinking way too much. Blame Crate & Barrell.
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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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Our vows are not of celibacy or self-denial, but of temperance and self-moderation.
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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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Miss Susan B. Anthony, a well-known, indefatigable, and lifelong advocate of temperance, anti-slavery, and woman's rights, has been, since 1851, Mrs. Stanton's intimate associate in reformatory labors.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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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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It was founded in 870 as a cooperative farm and temperance center and named for its patron, Horace Greeley. Population, '0,53'.
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Though temperance advocates acknowledged that either male or female drinking destroyed domestic happiness, they often reserved their harshest opprobrium for women's drunkenness.
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The very first package trip was not a search for sun, sea and indiscretion but a quarterly delegate meeting of the local temperance association.
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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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Until then, the Vietminh leaders had calculated that temperance would win them Allied favor.
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Also, some temperance advocates blamed women's lack of domesticity for their men's drinking.
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These ultra-temperance dietetical philosophers never flourished greatly.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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Susan Boyle is a model of that virtue (for which 'temperateness' is a better translation than the now-ruined 'temperance')
MercatorNet
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Temperance is the best physic.
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the intemperance of their language
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Temperance was inspired by evangelical Christianity and puritanical moralism.
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The temperance league wanted to close all the saloons in town.
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He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
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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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Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
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Health do not consist with intemperance.
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In this last aspect, however, habitual temperance will generally be found to be much more beneficial than occasional fasting.
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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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At bottom both were troubled and ashamed, for he was a high-up son of Temperance.
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Was it perhaps a warning about female intemperance, an early forerunner of Mother's Ruin?
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By contrast, a Scottish artiste might play to sodden Glasgow shipwrights, a restrained middle class audience and a temperance rally in the same week.
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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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You're to ride in a caroche, Aunt Temperance!" cried Aubrey.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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Viewed this way, the railroad brotherhoods ' language of temperance and respectable manhood was as much intended for public consumption as it was the uplift of railwaymen.
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The age of hedonism is being ushered out by a new era of temperance.
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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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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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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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Women's temperance rhetoric and activity bolstered brotherhood temperance efforts and to an extent influenced union policy.
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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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In one act of mortification one can practice many virtues, according to the different ends which one proposes in each act, as for example: 1. He who mortifies his body for the purpose of checking concupiscence, performs an act of the virtue of temperance.
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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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Firstly, the youth of today do not understand the meaning of the word temperance, an extra hour's drinking will simply mean an extra four pints of premium strength lager quaffed by these hedonistic louts.
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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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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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Under the banner of temperance and local prohibition of the sale of intoxicating beverages, Norwegian politicians gained the support of their compatriots and were elected to public office.
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Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather than particular virtues (e.g. justice, temperance, etc.).
Archive 2009-03-01
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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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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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In essence, temperance means the exercise of self-control that, in general, would lead one to avoid and resist the temptation to overindulge in hedonistic behaviours.
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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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As a grassroots, populist religious revival, Spiritualism adherents were often at the forefront of other reform movements, championing the cause of women’s rights, child labor concerns, and the temperance and antismut crusades.
The Secret Life of Houdini
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Many of those who abstain consider smoking a sign of weakness or intemperance.
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Nevertheless, splits occurred along class lines, on the issue of temperance, and on account of differences in personality among the leaders.
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"They eschew pleasure-seeking as a vice and regard temperance and mastery of the passions as a virtue," Josephus writes of the Essenes.
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Health does not consist with intemperance.
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Abolitionists, free-Boilers, temperance advocates, and nativists were organized interests of that era.
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Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
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In the 1830s, a third movement, the teetotal movement, emerged and radicalized temperance reform in two ways.
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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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And though Hoover was a Quaker, which gave him little theological common ground with the fundamentalists, at least there was a history of temperance sentiment in American Quakerism.
LAST CALL
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Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
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I acknowledge my ignorance of the derivation of the word temperance, but I do know drunkenness comes from drinking intoxicating liquor, therefore I favor total-abstinence and recommend it as the safe side of life for young men.
Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures
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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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It was founded in1870 as a cooperative farm and temperance center and named for its patron, Horace Greeley. Population, 60, 536.
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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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The brotherhoods' temperance activity incorporated aspects of earlier working-class and middle-class temperance efforts.
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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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Speedily the State was aflame with disturbances in temperance and teachers 'conventions, and the press heralded the news far and near that women delegates had suddenly appeared, demanding admission in men's conventions; that their rights had been hotly contested session after session, by liberal men on the one side, the clergy and learned professors on the other; an overwhelming majority rejecting the women with terrible anathemas and denunciations.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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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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Jack once attended a Temperance lecture given by Scotland's top medical man , a noted anti - drink campaigner.
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Temperance crusaders understood the societal problems that caused alcoholism.
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The word intemperance is generally employed as applying to the abuse of strong drinks.
Life and Conduct