1628,William Prynne,Healthes Sicknesse. Or, a compendious and briefe Discourse; prouing the Drinking, and Pledging of Healthes, to be Sinfull[…], London:Augustine Matthews,page22:
Who did begin their Feaſtes with Prayers; continue them withTemperance, and Sobrietie; eating no more then would ſuffice their hunger; drinking no more then would quench and ſatisfie their thirſt[…]
On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not thetemperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
But there was no one to shake Nero intotemperance. He had affairs, drank tremendously, raised taxes in the provinces to pay for his indulgences, and started once again to hold the infamous treason trials as Caligula had done.
1842 February 22,Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society”, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley, editor,The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln[1]:
Another error, as it seems to me, into which the old reformers fell, was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible, and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace oftemperance might abound, to the temperate then, and to all mankind some hundreds of years thereafter.
So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again. ¶ First they done a lecture ontemperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on.
Public-houses, besides their usual exhortation againsttemperance reform, invited men to “Join our Christmas goose club”—one bottle of gin, etc., or two, according to subscription.
Evangelists organized an association for each issue—temperance, education, Sabbath observance, antidueling, and later antislavery; collectively these groups formed a national web of benevolent and moral reform societies.
[…] in the verie Torrent, Tempeſt, and (as I may ſay) the Whirle-winde of Paſſion, you muſt acquire and beget aTemperance that may giue it Smoothneſſe.
What was the government doing keeping schools open when our closest neighbours – Ireland, France, Germany, Spain and Italy – had already closed theirs?[…] Those who were being charitable asked fortemperance. Our government surely had a credible plan? Somewhere. Right?
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