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" O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams. "
The Board of Health and Longevity; Or, Hydropathy for the People - Page 108
by William Horsell - 1845
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. Samson Agonistes—Milton. DCCCLXI. What can the Epicure say of any of the pleasures...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear ; His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. Samson Jlaonistes — Milton. DCCCLXI. What can the Epicure say of any of the pleasures...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.. SAMS. But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing?...
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The American Quarterly Observer, Volume 1

Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. Samson Agonistcs, 547. To clear English literature of the drinking influence that pervades...
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Permanent Temperance Documents of the American Temperance Society, Volume 1

American Temperance Society - 1835 - 536 pages
...And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.' Who would think of applying the whip or the spur to a jaded and exhausted horse, in...
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Bacchus, an essay on intemperance

Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1839 - 564 pages
...And strongest drink, our chief support of health, When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the limpid brook MILTON. AN inquiry into the nature and qualities of the wines mentioned in the Scriptures, forms an...
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...And strongest drinks our chief support of health. When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. Samson Agonista. When the Angel of the Lord appeared unto the wife of Manoah, and promised...
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Bacchus: An Essay on the Nature, Causes, Effects, and Cure of Intemperance

Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1840 - 542 pages
...And strongest drink, our chief support of health, When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, • . Whose drink was only from the limpid brook. MllTON. AN inquiry into the nature and qualities of the wines mentioned in the Scriptures, forms an...
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The Judges of Israel: Or a History of the Jews from the Death of Joshua to ...

Israel - 1840 - 152 pages
...strongest drinks, our chief supports of health ! When God, with these forhidden, made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare. Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. The first event related of Samson's life in maturer years, is the seeking a wife from...
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The New-York Review, Volume 9

1841 - 570 pages
...Agonistes, elected and ordained to struggle, to suffer, and to perish for a people unworthy of him : — " His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook." Let any one who has considered the state of manners at Athens just at the moment of...
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