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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... person to the persuasions of his own mind ; or whether from the peculiarity or the difficulty of saying any thing useful and satisfactory on such questions ; or to what- ever other motive we may attribute the omission , it is certain ...
... person to the persuasions of his own mind ; or whether from the peculiarity or the difficulty of saying any thing useful and satisfactory on such questions ; or to what- ever other motive we may attribute the omission , it is certain ...
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... live on the earth , such representations must necessarily be partial and selfish , and always liable to exception : person who surrenders up his opinion , the and and forbodes his own fate on observing that of another 2 ન.
... live on the earth , such representations must necessarily be partial and selfish , and always liable to exception : person who surrenders up his opinion , the and and forbodes his own fate on observing that of another 2 ન.
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... cution , and he fits his observations to the several tempers , constitutions , and circum- stances of particular persons , and so keeps free of all forcible exhortation either to the married , married , or the single state : if it be 5.
... cution , and he fits his observations to the several tempers , constitutions , and circum- stances of particular persons , and so keeps free of all forcible exhortation either to the married , married , or the single state : if it be 5.
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... persons who had many chil- dren ; besides , those who led a single life were , except from their nearest relations , and under certain receiving legacies . restrictions , incapable of Among the Lacedemo- niaus , no man could continue ...
... persons who had many chil- dren ; besides , those who led a single life were , except from their nearest relations , and under certain receiving legacies . restrictions , incapable of Among the Lacedemo- niaus , no man could continue ...
Strana 15
... person to have children by another woman besides her , that in a more strict sense is his wife . " * Not many years ago , a writer and preacher of great celebrity undertook to vindicate the doctrine of a plurality of wives ; he con ...
... person to have children by another woman besides her , that in a more strict sense is his wife . " * Not many years ago , a writer and preacher of great celebrity undertook to vindicate the doctrine of a plurality of wives ; he con ...
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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
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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!