 | American literature - 1837 - 660 pages
...self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused. In every community there must be pleasures, relaxations,...especially before the Revolution, has been represented ai a singularly temperate country ; a fact to be explained, at least ia part, by the constitutional... | |
 | 1837 - 682 pages
...ones are not furnished, resort will bo had to criminal. Man was made to enjoy, as well as to labor; and the state of society should be adapted to this principle of human nature. Frunce, especially before the revolution, has been represented as a singularly temperate country; a... | |
 | Ireland - 1841 - 436 pages
...AMUSEMENTS—MUSIC. In every community there must be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement i and if innocent ones are not furnished, resort will...country ; a fact to be explained, at least in part, by trie constitutional cheerfulness of that people, and by the prevalence of simple and innocent grati&cations,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1843 - 686 pages
...with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused. In every community there must bo pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement...the revolution, has been represented as a singularly temporate country ; a fact to be explained, at least in part, by the constitutional cheerfulness of... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Day - 1844 - 228 pages
...there should be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement ; for, if innocent ones be not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man...should be adapted to this principle of human nature." * Our great reformer, Martin Luther, thus writes : — " What I here say from St. Paul's words, I have... | |
 | Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 pages
...excitement ; and if innocent are.not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man was made to enjey as well as to labour, and the state of society should be adapted to this principle of human nature. Men drink to excess very often to shake off depression, or to satisfy the restless thirst for agreeable... | |
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1884 - 786 pages
...are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal means. Man was made to enjoy as well as to labor, and the state of society should be adapted to this principle of human nature." Deprived of the means of recreation, and abridged in the enjoyment of innocent amusements, the hard-working... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1875 - 948 pages
...ones are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man was made to enjoy, as well as to labor ; and the state of society should be adapted to this...represented as a singularly temperate country, — a fact to De explained, at least in part, by the constitutional chc..-.-fulne.ss.of that people and by the prevalence... | |
 | Axel Gustafson - Alcohol - 1884 - 624 pages
...in Good Templet Watchword, February 4, 1884. means of agreeable excitement, and if innocent ones arc not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man...should be adapted to this principle of human nature." He speaks earnestly of the humanizing power of music,* Tll<> power . • a • vi • IT -IT i and... | |
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In every community there must be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement; and if innocent ones are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man was made to enjoy as well as to labour ; and the state of society should be adapted... 
