Groton stores for some years before and after myself, no one else, to my knowledge, escaped the bog or slough ; and my escape I trace to the simple fact of my having put a restraint upon my appetite. We five boys were in the habit, every forenoon, of... Granite State Monthly - Page 1961886Full view - About this book
| Amos Lawrence - Boston (Mass.) - 1855 - 346 pages
...In regard to this resolution, he writes, many years afterward, to a young student in college : — " In the first place, take this for your motto at the...admonished by my appetite of the approach of the hour for indul* President Hopkins's Sermon in commemoration of Amos Lawrence. gence. Thinking the habit might... | |
| Amos Lawrence - Boston (Mass.) - 1855 - 396 pages
...* In regard to this resolution, he writes, many years afterward, to a young student in college : " In the first place, take this for your motto at the...habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of * President Hopkins's Sermon in commemoration of Amos Lawrence. rum, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, &c., with... | |
| Amos Lawrence - Boston (Mass.) - 1855 - 394 pages
...at the commencement of your journey, that the difference of going just right, or a little icronff, will be the difference of finding yourself in good...habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of • President Hopkins's Sermon in commemoration of Amos Lawrence. rum. raisins, sugar, nutmeg, &c.,... | |
| Amos Lawrence - 1855 - 396 pages
...before and after myself, no one else, to my knowledge, escaped the bog or slough ; and my escape _I trace to the simple fact of my having put a restraint...habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of • President IIopkina'B Sermon in commemoration of Amos Lawrence. rum, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, &c.,... | |
| Commerce - 1858 - 808 pages
...slough ; and my escape I trace to the simple fact of my having put a restraint upon my appetite. Wo five boys were in the habit, every forenoon> of making...all .palatable to eat and drink. After being in the shop four weeks, I found myself admonished, by my appetite, of the approach of the hour for indulgence.... | |
| Freeman Hunt - Merchants - 1858 - 650 pages
...seductions of the deadliest of vices. " 'We five boys," said Mr. Lawrence, many years afterward, " were in the habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of rum, raisins, sugar, nutmegs, &c., with biscuit—-all palatable to eat and drink. After being in the store four weeks,... | |
| Freeman Hunt - Merchants - 1858 - 614 pages
...the seductions of the deadliest of vices. " We five boys," said Mr. Lawrence, many years afterward, " were in the habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of rum, raisins, sugar, nutmegs, &c., with biscuit—all palatable to eat and drink. After being in the store four weeks, I... | |
| Freeman Hunt - Merchants - 1858 - 640 pages
...the seductions of the deadliest of vices. "We five boys," said Mr. Lawrence, many years afterward, " were in the habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of ram, raisins, sugar, nutmegs, &c., with biscuit — all palatable to eat and drink. After being in... | |
| HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...Many years afterward, he wrote to a young friend, respecting this incident in his life,'as follows : "In the first place, take this for your motto, at...a drink compounded of rum, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, etc., with biscuit—all palatable to eat and drink. After being in the store four weeks, I found myself... | |
| Biography - 1861 - 332 pages
...character. In writing of this resolution to a young friend, several years afterward, he says : — " In the first place, take this for your motto at the...a drink compounded of rum, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, etc., with biscuit — all palatable to eat and drink. After being in the store four weeks, I found... | |
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