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 23
... barbarous , to affect to smother some pas- sions , which , under proper restraint , have such affinity to virtue ? Is it not injustice and ingratitude to mistake the advantages which we have received from Nature ? and since the Almighty ...
... barbarous , to affect to smother some pas- sions , which , under proper restraint , have such affinity to virtue ? Is it not injustice and ingratitude to mistake the advantages which we have received from Nature ? and since the Almighty ...
Pàgina 41
... barbarous and inhuman to confine and chain down a Man to such mise- ries as are not to end till his death ; and which would admit of an easy cure , did not the severity of this positive ordinance stand in the way : inasmuch as God ...
... barbarous and inhuman to confine and chain down a Man to such mise- ries as are not to end till his death ; and which would admit of an easy cure , did not the severity of this positive ordinance stand in the way : inasmuch as God ...
Pàgina 82
... barbarity by dragging captive kings in his train , is suddenly choked by an effusion of blood , and that on his nuptial day ! pride was not made for man ! reflect on this , and be no longer proud ! ESSAY V. DUELLING . THE celebrated ...
... barbarity by dragging captive kings in his train , is suddenly choked by an effusion of blood , and that on his nuptial day ! pride was not made for man ! reflect on this , and be no longer proud ! ESSAY V. DUELLING . THE celebrated ...
Pàgina 85
... barbarity . 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 assaulted by diseases which are loathsome to ...
... barbarity . 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 assaulted by diseases which are loathsome to ...
Pàgina 82
... barbarity by dragging captive kings in his train , is suddenly choked by an effusion of blood , and that on his nuptial day ! pride was not made for man ! reflect on this , and be no longer proud ! ESSAY V. DUELLING . THE celebrated ...
... barbarity by dragging captive kings in his train , is suddenly choked by an effusion of blood , and that on his nuptial day ! pride was not made for man ! reflect on this , and be no longer proud ! ESSAY V. DUELLING . THE celebrated ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 144 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Pàgina 56 - 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 110 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honours...
Pàgina 77 - Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Pàgina 56 - 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 77 - 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 153 - 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, can this be Death...
Pàgina 115 - 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!
Pàgina 69 - God created man in his own image, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Pàgina 20 - God : duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained. One was the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and praise of God.