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 22
... evil , than it is to see by the organs of the eye , or to hear by those of the ear . We are not required to extinguish our pas- sions , but only duly to balance them ; rightly have they been termed the gales of life , and it is our ...
... evil , than it is to see by the organs of the eye , or to hear by those of the ear . We are not required to extinguish our pas- sions , but only duly to balance them ; rightly have they been termed the gales of life , and it is our ...
Pàgina 24
... evil , should be exercised before that evil has triumphed , or by habit is become incorrigible : besides , early marriage gives more time , more health , and better spi- rits " If any one shall say , that the state of matrimony is to be ...
... evil , should be exercised before that evil has triumphed , or by habit is become incorrigible : besides , early marriage gives more time , more health , and better spi- rits " If any one shall say , that the state of matrimony is to be ...
Pàgina 28
... evil , to transmit to our offspring ! how happy had it been for the heir of many a great estate , had he been born a beggar , rather than to inherit his father's fortunes Fide Dr. Buchan fortunes at the expense of inheriting his ...
... evil , to transmit to our offspring ! how happy had it been for the heir of many a great estate , had he been born a beggar , rather than to inherit his father's fortunes Fide Dr. Buchan fortunes at the expense of inheriting his ...
Pàgina 29
... evil will be continued . * " In our matrimonial contracts , it is ama- zing so little regard is had to the health and form ** The Lacedemonians condemned their king Archidamus for having married a weak , puny woman ; because , said they ...
... evil will be continued . * " In our matrimonial contracts , it is ama- zing so little regard is had to the health and form ** The Lacedemonians condemned their king Archidamus for having married a weak , puny woman ; because , said they ...
Pàgina 30
... forbid to marry . This is an evil of a complicated kind , a natural deformity , and political mischief ; and therefore requires a public consideration . + Rosseau 1. " . sought in marriage . Beauty soon grows fa- miliar by 30.
... forbid to marry . This is an evil of a complicated kind , a natural deformity , and political mischief ; and therefore requires a public consideration . + Rosseau 1. " . sought in marriage . Beauty soon grows fa- miliar by 30.
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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.