Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 strán (strany) |
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Strana 5
... habit and situation had reconciled them to seclusion , and made con- venient and voluntary to them , what at first originated from necessity . The important cares of that season obliged them not to engage in the world more than was ...
... habit and situation had reconciled them to seclusion , and made con- venient and voluntary to them , what at first originated from necessity . The important cares of that season obliged them not to engage in the world more than was ...
Strana 23
... habit of a well governed mind . ” It is but to moderate our affections , and they will be changed into virtues ; for when love and hatred , which are the sources of all other passions , shall be wisely and justly guided , they will ...
... habit of a well governed mind . ” It is but to moderate our affections , and they will be changed into virtues ; for when love and hatred , which are the sources of all other passions , shall be wisely and justly guided , they will ...
Strana 24
... 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 preferred before the state of virginity or celibacy ; and that it ...
... 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 preferred before the state of virginity or celibacy ; and that it ...
Strana 32
... habits of life , difference of education , and formation of taste and after all , the most ill - conditioned temper , from the higher to the lower ranks of society , may be disciplined for their respec- tive delusions , and artfully ...
... habits of life , difference of education , and formation of taste and after all , the most ill - conditioned temper , from the higher to the lower ranks of society , may be disciplined for their respec- tive delusions , and artfully ...
Strana 50
... habits of intemperance . Women , on the contrary , by more seden- tary and sober lives , and by fewer avocations of the mind , are particularly left to solitary and strengthened imagination , while the in- dulgence of it , except in ...
... habits of intemperance . Women , on the contrary , by more seden- tary and sober lives , and by fewer avocations of the mind , are particularly left to solitary and strengthened imagination , while the in- dulgence of it , except in ...
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Strana 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...
Strana 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!
Strana 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.
Strana 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!
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Strana 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
Strana 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Strana 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!