 | 1845 - 620 sider
...under the most favorable circumstances, with riot, drunkenness, and every species of immorality ; as always scenes of the lowest and most destructive dissipation, where nothing was acquired but the most pernicious habits.' To compensate for such enormous evils, what good have our... | |
 | George Cone Beckwith - 1847 - 262 sider
...under the most favorable circumstances, with riot, drunkenness, and every species of immorality ; as always scenes of the lowest and most destructive dissipation, where nothing was acquired but the most pernicious habits.' Nor has the progress of temperance cured these evils ; for... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 800 sider
...under the most favourable circumstances, with riot, drunkenness, and every species of immorality ; as always scenes of the lowest and most destructive dissipation, where nothing was acquired but the most pernicious habits."' But while utterly inefficient for military purposes, the... | |
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militia musters as prejudicial to the morals of the community ; as assemblies of idle and dissipated persons ; as making idlers and drunkards rather than soldiers ; as attended, under the most favorable circumstances, with riot, drunkenness, and every... 