Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... greater re- proach , be effectually urged as the authority for remaining in that state : reasons there are , and sufficient ones too , for that determi- nation : health and even life itself may in several instances demand such caution ...
... greater re- proach , be effectually urged as the authority for remaining in that state : reasons there are , and sufficient ones too , for that determi- nation : health and even life itself may in several instances demand such caution ...
Pàgina 25
... greater part , puny and dis- eased , are probably left in distress and misery , while their parents are gone down with grey hairs and with sorrow to the grave ! Time , therefore , which always ought to be precious , should not in this ...
... greater part , puny and dis- eased , are probably left in distress and misery , while their parents are gone down with grey hairs and with sorrow to the grave ! Time , therefore , which always ought to be precious , should not in this ...
Pàgina 32
... greater latitude of time for the purposes of discrimination and experience . Charms there are in person , and irresistible ones too , but unless adorned with the unfading beauties of the mind , they partake more of the fever of desire ...
... greater latitude of time for the purposes of discrimination and experience . Charms there are in person , and irresistible ones too , but unless adorned with the unfading beauties of the mind , they partake more of the fever of desire ...
Pàgina 37
... in which , besides the greater evils , more fortune is often wasted , than is brought with a vain , a foolish , an indiscreet , and a hated wife . The first thought * Bishop Burnet . thought in chusing a wife ought to be , to 37.
... in which , besides the greater evils , more fortune is often wasted , than is brought with a vain , a foolish , an indiscreet , and a hated wife . The first thought * Bishop Burnet . thought in chusing a wife ought to be , to 37.
Pàgina 57
... greater part , disguises itself in the exuberance of leaves : the main drift of such writing is to interest , to agi- tate , and to convulse the passions , and is but too prone , by a sympathy of sentiment to lead the mind astray ; if ...
... greater part , disguises itself in the exuberance of leaves : the main drift of such writing is to interest , to agi- tate , and to convulse the passions , and is but too prone , by a sympathy of sentiment to lead the mind astray ; if ...
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affront allowed ancient Athenian Athens avarice better blood body cation cause Celibacy character chastity Christian commanded committed conscience considered contempt Council of Trent courage crime death desire disease dismal divine drachms dreadful drinking dropsies drunk drunkenness duel duelling duty effects enemies Epicureans ESSAY evil excess exposed falsehood fear feel fleep fortune friends gibbets give gouts guilty habit happiness heart hence honour human injurious instances Jews justice justly King live Lord Lycurgus mankind manner marriage married matrimony mind misery Montesquieu moral murdered nature never oaths obliged observed occa occasions parents passion person Plato Plutarch Polygamy pride principle Puffendorf punishment reason revenge Romans sacred salutary says scurvy seduction SELF-MURDER sentiments sions slander sober society Solon soul spect spirit suicide tears tell temperance thing thou thought tion truth usually valour vice Vide virtue VITAL spark Wedlock wise woman women writer
Passatges populars
Pàgina 113 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pàgina 189 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. . What is this absorbs me quite ! Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul!
Pàgina 92 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will, not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 190 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting ? The Universal Prayer FATHER of all!
Pàgina 172 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pàgina 132 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Pàgina 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Pàgina 92 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Pàgina 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Pàgina 151 - HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me not that, in some sad and sickening moments, my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction mere pomp of words!