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 147
... of justice in the preceding Essay ; it cannot be denied , that on some occasions , her decrees are rigorous , and that she is unacquainted with the de- lightful attribute of mercy . U 2 " Pay 66 Pay me that thou owest , " is equally.
... of justice in the preceding Essay ; it cannot be denied , that on some occasions , her decrees are rigorous , and that she is unacquainted with the de- lightful attribute of mercy . U 2 " Pay 66 Pay me that thou owest , " is equally.
Pàgina 148
... thou owest , " is equally her language to the necessitous as it is to the affluent : if she exacts a performance of the terms of the Bond , * and demands to " have a pound of flesh nearest to the merchant's heart , " stern justice ...
... thou owest , " is equally her language to the necessitous as it is to the affluent : if she exacts a performance of the terms of the Bond , * and demands to " have a pound of flesh nearest to the merchant's heart , " stern justice ...
Pàgina 151
... thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw , and it is thou who liftest him . up to Heaven . Eternal fountain of our feel- ings ! It is here I trace thee , and this is thy divinity which stirs within me : not , that in some sad ...
... thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw , and it is thou who liftest him . up to Heaven . Eternal fountain of our feel- ings ! It is here I trace thee , and this is thy divinity which stirs within me : not , that in some sad ...
Pàgina 152
... thou dost aspire to the Christian name ; and if thou art desirous of the favour of thy Maker , the esteem of thy fellow - creature , and the applause of thy own conscience , -- Be generous ! ESSAY XII . TEMPERANCE . IF from no better ...
... thou dost aspire to the Christian name ; and if thou art desirous of the favour of thy Maker , the esteem of thy fellow - creature , and the applause of thy own conscience , -- Be generous ! ESSAY XII . TEMPERANCE . IF from no better ...
Pàgina 172
... thou- sands ! It would require very little argument to prove , that water alone , with some few exceptions , is sufficient to answer all the pur poses of health and spirits ; and it is well worth worth the observation , that animals who ...
... thou- sands ! It would require very little argument to prove , that water alone , with some few exceptions , is sufficient to answer all the pur poses of health and spirits ; and it is well worth worth the observation , that animals who ...
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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!