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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... passions . Cecrops , who was raised King of Athens , among other useful institutions , introduced that of Matrimony : it was afterward re- ceived by all the inhabitants ; for no sooner had they civilized their undisciplined man- ners ...
... passions . Cecrops , who was raised King of Athens , among other useful institutions , introduced that of Matrimony : it was afterward re- ceived by all the inhabitants ; for no sooner had they civilized their undisciplined man- ners ...
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... passions , that we may the better govern them . Philosophers who have written on these subjects are so divided in opinion , that reason hath not been able to reconcile their difference . Some of them have been satisfied with describing ...
... passions , that we may the better govern them . Philosophers who have written on these subjects are so divided in opinion , that reason hath not been able to reconcile their difference . Some of them have been satisfied with describing ...
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... passions , shall be wisely and justly guided , they will become excellent virtues , and be trained into wisdom , temperance , fortitude , and justice . Is it not then unfair , nay even barbarous , to affect to smother some pas- sions ...
... passions , shall be wisely and justly guided , they will become excellent virtues , and be trained into wisdom , temperance , fortitude , and justice . Is it not then unfair , nay even barbarous , to affect to smother some pas- sions ...
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... to conceal its fury . The Pla- tonics give love a spirit , and an absolute power over the passions ; the Stoics term love a fury , and judging of its nature by effects , effects , they cannot suppose , that the soul is 26.
... to conceal its fury . The Pla- tonics give love a spirit , and an absolute power over the passions ; the Stoics term love a fury , and judging of its nature by effects , effects , they cannot suppose , that the soul is 26.
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... passion . That · Some Philosophers have affirmed , love is a pleasing wound , which man hath received from a fair object , that it is the beam of a Sun which warms him , that it is a charm , whose virtue is attraction . " All the passions ...
... passion . That · Some Philosophers have affirmed , love is a pleasing wound , which man hath received from a fair object , that it is the beam of a Sun which warms him , that it is a charm , whose virtue is attraction . " All the passions ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration affront allow altar apparel Aratus Athenian avarice barbarity Barnwell betrayed Bishop of Sodor blood body cause Celibacy character chastity Christian commanded considered Council of Trent courage crime death deemster desire dismal drachms dreadful drink drunkenness duel duelling effects enemies ESSAY evil exposed fear feel Fordyce's Sermons fortune frequently friends gaol genuine Philo gibbets give guilty happiness heart hence honour human injurious Isle of Mann justice justly King King of Navarre live Lord Lord Rochester Lycurgus mankind manner marriage marry matrimony mind misery moral murdered nature never obliged observation occa occasions parent passion person pheasants were dressed Plato's Plutarch Polygamy principle proud punishment reason revenge Romans sacred salutary says seduction sentiment sions Sir Matthew Hale slander society soul species spect sword tears tell temperance thing thou hast tion truth usually valour vanity vice Vide virtue wedlock woman women words writer
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Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 69 - God created man in his own image, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Página 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.