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Looking back in to the past and relishing memories is not a pastime that besots only the old and the middle aged who grew up with songs like “Those Were The Days” type songs.

Tin Fish: Recreating the Wonder Years Shantanud 2007

Yea, it so stupefies and besots the soul, that a man who is far gone in drunkenness is hardly ever recovered to God.

The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

Suffice it to say there is nothing that besots a man more completely and lowers him more ignobly to the level of the brute.

Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

Drunkenness besots the understanding, ruins the constitution, and leaves those addicted to it in the last stages of life, in want and misery, equally destitute of all necessaries, and incapable to procure them.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

When degenerate love runs riot, it dethrones the Almighty, makes gods of clay and besots itself before them.

Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

There is always hope of reform for a dull, uneducated, stolid man, led by accident or temptation into guilt; but where a man of great ability, and highly educated, besots himself in the intoxication of dark and terrible excitements, takes impure delight in tortuous and slimy ways, the good angel abandons him forever.

Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

There is always hope of reform for a dull, uneducated, stolid man, led by accident or temptation into guilt; but where a man of great ability, and highly educated, besots himself in the intoxication of dark and terrible excitements, takes impure delight in tortuous and slimy ways, the good angel abandons him forever.

Lucretia — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

We pity an idiot, and one that is naturally destitute of under standing, or one that loseth the use of his reason by a disease or other inevitable accident: but every one despiseth him who besots himself, and plays the fool out of carelessness and a gross neglect of himself.

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07. 1630-1694 1820

Drunkenness besots the understanding, ruins the constitution, and leaves those addicted to it in the last stages of life, in want and misery, equally destitute of all necessaries, and incapable to procure them.

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735

Nay, it is the corrupt bias of the will that bribes and besots the understanding: none so blind as those that will not see.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721