 | John Trumbull - Painters - 1841 - 520 pages
...taste your beer, I could never stop until I got to rum, and became again the drunken, contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution." Socrates never uttered a more valuable precept — Demosthenes... | |
 | John Trumbull - Painters - 1841 - 530 pages
...contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution." Socrates never uttered a more valuable precept—Demosthenes could not have given it in more solemn tones of eloquence. I was thunderstruck.... | |
 | 1845 - 792 pages
...taste your beer, I could never stop until I got to rum, and become again the same drunken, contemptible wretch, your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution ."' Socrates never utterred a more valuable precept. — Demosthenes... | |
 | 1847 - 556 pages
...but taste your beer, I could not stop until I got to rum, and became again the drunken, contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution.' Socrates never uttered a more valuable precept ; Demosthenes could... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - Anecdotes - 1848 - 908 pages
...but taste your beer, I could not stop until I got to ruin, and become again the drunken, contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never tempt a man to break a good resolution." This story the venerable Col. Trumbull tells of himself. Let... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1858 - 414 pages
...but taste your beer, I could not stop until I got to ruin, and become again the drunken contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never tempt a man to break a good resolution." This story the venerable Col. Trumbull tells of himself. Let... | |
 | Isaac William Stuart - History - 1859 - 726 pages
...contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, tchile you lite, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution.'' Socrates never uttered...a more valuable precept Demosthenes could not have uttered it in more solemn tones of eloquence. I was thunderstruck. My parents were deeply affected... | |
 | Isaac William Stuart - History - 1859 - 730 pages
...contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, vhilt you lite, nerer again tempt any man to break a good resolution." Socrates never uttered a more valuable precept Demosthenes could not hive uttered it in more solemn tones of eloquence. I was thunderstruck. My parents were deeply affected;... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1862 - 582 pages
...taste your beer, I should never stop till I was ruined, and again become the poor, drunken, miserable wretch, your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never tempt a man to break a good resolution." This story Col. Trumbull tells of himself. Let all remember... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1867 - 528 pages
...never stop till I got to rum, and become again the same drunken contemptible wretch your father once remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution.' Socrates never uttered a more valuable precept. Demosthenes could... | |
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I got to rum, and become again the drunken, contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution. 
