 Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven from which his crimes...  Drug Dependence - Seite 231969Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1853 - 816 Seiten
...crimes exclude him I In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and yon will form as tolerable a notion of my state as it is possible for a good man to have." t And yet Coleridge lived twenty years after this letter was written, conquered the evil habit, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 Seiten
...heaven from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a notion...my state, as it is possible for a good man to have ! ' Finally, in 1816, he was induced to place himself under the care of Mr Oilman, a surgeon at Highgate... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 370 Seiten
...for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you...offended in one point, offends in all,' very harsh ; but I now feel the awful, the tremendous truth of it. In the one crime of OPIUM, what crime have I not... | |
 | 1837 - 704 Seiten
...for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes exclude him! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you...my state, as it is possible for a good man to have. ' For I am unworthy to call any good man friend—much less you, whose hospitality and love I have... | |
 | 1838 - 556 Seiten
...for others the road to that heaven from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you...will form as tolerable a notion of my state, as it is pessible for a good man to have. I used to think the text in St. James, that " he who offends in one... | |
 | 1838 - 564 Seiten
...for others the road to that heaven from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, 'and you will form as tolerable a fiotion of my state, as it is possible for a good man to have. I used to think the text in St James,... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1839 - 674 Seiten
...that heaven from which his crimes exclude him. In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a notion...my state, as it is possible for a good man to have. In the one crime of opium, what crime have I not made myself guilty of, &c. After my death, I earnestly... | |
 | 1840 - 408 Seiten
...for others the road to that heaven from which, his crimes exclude him! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you...notion of my state as it is possible for a good man to bave. I used to think the text in St. .lames, that he who offended in one point, offend« in all,'... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 Seiten
...that heaven from which his crimes exclude him. In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a notion...my state as it is possible for a good man to have. In the one crime of opium, what crime have I not made myself guilty of? After my death, I earnestly... | |
 | Congressional Total Abstinence Society, Congressional total abstinence society, Washington, D.C. - 1842 - 44 Seiten
...abused ; accept, however, my entreaties for your forgiveness and your prayers. * * * Conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you...my state as it is possible for a good man to have, * * * In the one crime of opium, what crime have I not made myself guilty of! Ingratitude to my Maker... | |
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