Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 páginas |
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Página 38
... meet for the man : in the married state , the mutual study of both ought to be , to help and please one another . " Much advice , indeed , may be offered both to the man and the woman , for their recipro- cal good conduct in the ...
... meet for the man : in the married state , the mutual study of both ought to be , to help and please one another . " Much advice , indeed , may be offered both to the man and the woman , for their recipro- cal good conduct in the ...
Página 39
... meet for the woman , or the woman meet for the man , instead of pro- moting mutual happiness , marriage becomes the intolerable bane of it ; under such un- happy circumstances , and especially where there are no children , the question ...
... meet for the woman , or the woman meet for the man , instead of pro- moting mutual happiness , marriage becomes the intolerable bane of it ; under such un- happy circumstances , and especially where there are no children , the question ...
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... , agitation of person , and tremulousness of voice , than sometimes can be discovered in the deportment of him , who is about to meet his final doom on the awful platform ! Το t To overcome such unsuitable panicks as much as possible 45.
... , agitation of person , and tremulousness of voice , than sometimes can be discovered in the deportment of him , who is about to meet his final doom on the awful platform ! Το t To overcome such unsuitable panicks as much as possible 45.
Página 109
... fortitude to meet it ; for want therefore of a manly resolution to combat against the adversities of life , it happens , that men , by suicides , make a mean surrender of of their own existence ; and afraid of their enemies 109.
... fortitude to meet it ; for want therefore of a manly resolution to combat against the adversities of life , it happens , that men , by suicides , make a mean surrender of of their own existence ; and afraid of their enemies 109.
Página 111
... meet it ; but where life is rendered more terrible than death , it then be- comes the truest valour to live : but the con- duct of the suicide proves that he has not courage so to resolve : overawed by the trou- bles of the moment ...
... meet it ; but where life is rendered more terrible than death , it then be- comes the truest valour to live : but the con- duct of the suicide proves that he has not courage so to resolve : overawed by the trou- bles of the moment ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Página 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
Página 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Página 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!