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 9
... hands , if not born to fortune , must work for that subsistence : and although it may be said , that the poor have seldom any provision for accidents , to which they may be particu- larly exposed , it should be mentioned , as an honour ...
... hands , if not born to fortune , must work for that subsistence : and although it may be said , that the poor have seldom any provision for accidents , to which they may be particu- larly exposed , it should be mentioned , as an honour ...
Pàgina 10
... hand down to posterity a continuance of those advantages : for supposing that the generality of mankind from the same argu- ment of private ease , were to remain in the single state , great would be the defalcation in the population of ...
... hand down to posterity a continuance of those advantages : for supposing that the generality of mankind from the same argu- ment of private ease , were to remain in the single state , great would be the defalcation in the population of ...
Pàgina 56
... hand , those of dis- cernment and experience are apt to presume on these protections ; but the fever is caught before it is felt , and poison may be received into the stomach , before the patient is aware that he has swallowed it ...
... hand , those of dis- cernment and experience are apt to presume on these protections ; but the fever is caught before it is felt , and poison may be received into the stomach , before the patient is aware that he has swallowed it ...
Pàgina 107
... hands of their enemies . The Stoick Philosophers , who considered all things to lie under an irresistible neces- sity ; and the Epicureans , who expected no future state , consistently with such principles , abandoned themselves to ...
... hands of their enemies . The Stoick Philosophers , who considered all things to lie under an irresistible neces- sity ; and the Epicureans , who expected no future state , consistently with such principles , abandoned themselves to ...
Pàgina 108
... hands . " The moral Seneca * never spake in higher praise of virtue than he did of this action ; he imagined that all the Gods descended into Utica to consider this spectacle . Plato himself , when he commands those only to be interred ...
... hands . " The moral Seneca * never spake in higher praise of virtue than he did of this action ; he imagined that all the Gods descended into Utica to consider this spectacle . Plato himself , when he commands those only to be interred ...
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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!