A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. From LearnThat.org. [Cicero (106 - 43 BC)]
The intemperance of their language. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a long series of intemperances. From Dictionary.com.
In all these cases the idea of intemperance is excluded. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference
Now, as to this disease of intemperance, which is a social and moral as well as. From Wordnik.com. [Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink] Reference
Sad memory brings up our last meeting, and when the subject of his intemperance was the theme of our parting conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
Obj. 3: Further, the Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 12) that "every kind of intemperance is most deserving of reproach.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Nor refrain they in this case from any kind of intemperance of speech, if of action. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
To exert our every effort to obliterate those evils which tend to destroy our character and our homes, such as intemperance, gambling, and social impurity. From Wordnik.com. [Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements] Reference
The men were effectually prevented from exposing themselves to the sun, and from indulging in any kind of intemperance, and every possible care was taken of them. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference
"just concern" with slavery in the slave states, as the temperance men of the North have with "intemperance" at the South. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
If you would not, be on your guard against intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
From garden rhubarb, which will not lend to intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
The history exhibited neither syphilis, malaria nor intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
"What an awful thing intemperance is!" said one of the elder girls. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
The temptations of intemperance surrounding our reservation are great. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
The city has fathered many able writers against slavery and intemperance, among whom was. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
Then he came back with his diploma but with the habit of intemperance fastened upon him. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
"There is no look about her of habitual intemperance; at any rate, she cannot be hardened.". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Which means that intemperance is blameworthy only so far as it is against the public interest. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The four great vices of this age are Sabbath-breaking, gambling, intemperance and licentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
When my mood is darkened, my state is overcome by sinister cloud banks, a sure presage of intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
Impurity travels downward with intemperance, obscenity and corrupting diseases, to degradation and death. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The evils of intemperance are sufficiently startling to cause every good man and woman to seek for their removal. From Wordnik.com. [Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada] Reference
On the same grounds they consider incontinence to be something less than vice, but intemperance to be a complete vice. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
True, his wife contributed no little to hasten his end by the intemperance of her zeal and the acrimony of her bigotry. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There are a number of U.S. senators who can attest to McCain's repentance with handwritten apologies for his intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [What These Eyes Have Seen] Reference
The evils resulting from intemperance are so numerous and so destructive of human happiness and life, as to command universal attention. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Spartans used to send a drunken slave through the city that the sight of his folly and degradation might disgust young men with intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Legislature of the State of New York and the United States, in enacting laws to the effect of staying the great tide of intemperance among the. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
This illustrates that in our endeavers in the capacity of a society, to defeat the great monster -- intemperance -- we have a helper, which is the. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
In other intemperance news, when Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was interviewed on Irish radio Tuesday morning, he sounded groggy, his words a bit slurred. From Wordnik.com. [Sharron Angle not debating, Irish PM not drunk, Plutonium not secure] Reference
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