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 62
... a more extensive choice for them ; but when we see that even these very few are invaded by men , reproach cannot so sharply be levelled against the victims of seduction . So So great a nursery for vice is idleness , that 62.
... a more extensive choice for them ; but when we see that even these very few are invaded by men , reproach cannot so sharply be levelled against the victims of seduction . So So great a nursery for vice is idleness , that 62.
Pàgina 63
... vice is idleness , that Solon , the wise Athenian Legislator , made a law against it . The Egyptians require every person to be of some business . Among the Turks , ( the Grand Signior himself not excepted ) , every man must have a ...
... vice is idleness , that Solon , the wise Athenian Legislator , made a law against it . The Egyptians require every person to be of some business . Among the Turks , ( the Grand Signior himself not excepted ) , every man must have a ...
Pàgina 74
... vice , and of such a peculiar nature , that those who feel it strongest in themselves are the most intolerant of it in others . So much did this sort of pride reign among the first Philosophers , that they could easily discern it in ...
... vice , and of such a peculiar nature , that those who feel it strongest in themselves are the most intolerant of it in others . So much did this sort of pride reign among the first Philosophers , that they could easily discern it in ...
Pàgina 85
... Even among the northern nations which tolerated the use of duels , they urged in apo- logy for them , that the corruption and vice of the nation were beyond the controul of other other remedies , and branded the practice , of even 85.
... Even among the northern nations which tolerated the use of duels , they urged in apo- logy for them , that the corruption and vice of the nation were beyond the controul of other other remedies , and branded the practice , of even 85.
Pàgina 109
... vice has no claim to courage , but partakes on the contrary of cowardice as well as pride , it will be sufficient to remark , that courage is a virtue which supports the mind under a sense of danger , and gives her fortitude to meet it ...
... vice has no claim to courage , but partakes on the contrary of cowardice as well as pride , it will be sufficient to remark , that courage is a virtue which supports the mind under a sense of danger , and gives her fortitude to meet it ...
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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!