The Rev. Charles Garrett, the celebrated teetotal President of the Wesleyan Conference, writing several years after John Cassell's death, says: "I signed the pledge of total abstinence in 1840, after hearing a lecture on the subject by the late John Cassell.

A patient suffering from the lues venerea was disciplined by long and severe sweating in a heated tub, which combined with strict abstinence was formerly considered an excellent remedy for the disease.

There is nothing like a little abstinence to make one appreciate a good tobacco.

May this be my continual abstinence.

Do you remember his tears, his remorse, his determined abstinence from food, which he could scarcely be persuaded to relinquish?

Better eternal and universal abstinence than the brutalities of those days that made wives and mothers and daughters and sisters blush for those whom they should have honored, as they came reeling home from their debauches!

It is evident, however, that vegetables were never considered as being capable of forming solid nutriment, since they were almost exclusively used by monastic communities when under vows of extreme abstinence.

There is a conviction widespread among ushis own words, perhaps, have done most to create itthat King George is inspired, as no recent predecessor has been inspired, by the conception of kingship, that his is to be no rôle of almost indifferent abstinence from the broad processes of our national and imperial development.

This abstinence, laudable in itself, disastrously affected his temper, and brought him before noon into wordy conflict with his engineer.

GOOD TEMPLARS, a total abstinence fraternity organised in New York in 1851, which has lodges, subordinate, district, and grand, now all over the world; they exact a pledge of lifelong abstinence, and advocate the suppression of the vice by statute; there is a juvenile section pledged to abstinence from tobacco, gambling, and bad language, as well as drink.

They were not satisfied, many of them, with the mere abstinence from sugar; but began to form committees to correspond with that of London.

And painful abstinences tame Of wanton flesh, the pride" (Hymn at Prime).

By labour, diet, physic, abstinence, Subs. 1.

Prolonged abstinence from food frequently results in highly sharpened intellectual powers.

The same religious abstinence from all appearance of recreation on the Lord's day; and the same neglect of the weightier matters of the moral law, in the course of the week, &c. This sentence thus smuggled in at the bottom of the chest ought not to pass unnoticed; for the whole force of the former depends on it.

"The whole amount of relief;"from which it appears how grossly Locke (see his Education) was deceived in fancying that Augustus practised any remarkable abstinence in taking only a bit of bread and a raisin or two, by way of luncheon.

All athletes recognize this fact, as while training for a contest, rigid abstinence is the rule, both from liquors and tobacco.

In the shouts and triumphal songs with which, after a season of sharp abstinence, a lucky booty of deer's or goat's flesh would naturally be ushered home, existed, perhaps, the germ of the modern grace.

I blame myself for not having taken into consideration the possible effects of a sudden abstinence on the part of virtually the whole strength of the company on one of Anatole's impulsive Provençal temperament.

Systematic abstinence from intimate political connection with distant foreign nations does not conflict with giving the widest range to our foreign commerce.

" "I am exceedingly glad of your father's good health: he owes it to his uncommon abstinence and resolution," Lady Mary wrote to her daughter, April 11, 1759.

In place of the 'Guardian', which he had dropped when he felt the plan of that journal unequal to the right and full expression of his mind, Steele took for a periodical the name of 'Englishman', and under that name fought, with then unexampled abstinence from personality, against the principles upheld by Swift in his 'Examiner'.

His stomach, so weakened by years of unhealthy abstinence from true nourishment, was now terribly tortured by this sudden stimulus.

Although he abandoned an unusual abstinence out of respect for his father, we have positive evidence that he resumed in his old age the spare practices which in his enthusiastic youth he had caught from the lessons of high-minded teachers.

An absolute abstinence from carnal thought, devout and pure of Spirit; free from Sin.