Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 страници |
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... claims . Convenience must sometimes be allowed as a tolerable plea for remaining in the single state ; but selfishness is more frequently the prevailing motive . The taxes chargeable on a single state , either in health , pocket , or ...
... claims . Convenience must sometimes be allowed as a tolerable plea for remaining in the single state ; but selfishness is more frequently the prevailing motive . The taxes chargeable on a single state , either in health , pocket , or ...
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... certain ; nevertheless , the dictates of reason , the claims of duty , and a regard to posterity ought , in their single or collective force , in various instances , E2 argu- instances , to be resolutely opposed to the furiousness of 27.
... certain ; nevertheless , the dictates of reason , the claims of duty , and a regard to posterity ought , in their single or collective force , in various instances , E2 argu- instances , to be resolutely opposed to the furiousness of 27.
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... claims our present attention , means the art of tempting , deceiving , and corrupting . The institution of marriage , which has already been recommended as the honourable provision for satisfying the demands of na- ture ; from a false ...
... claims our present attention , means the art of tempting , deceiving , and corrupting . The institution of marriage , which has already been recommended as the honourable provision for satisfying the demands of na- ture ; from a false ...
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... claims so great a share of superiority , alas ! what is it ? the language of Marius to the Romans , when they hesitated to appoint him to the rank of General , merely on account of his extraction , answers that question in the following ...
... claims so great a share of superiority , alas ! what is it ? the language of Marius to the Romans , when they hesitated to appoint him to the rank of General , merely on account of his extraction , answers that question in the following ...
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... . " Even of mental accomplishments in the highest perfection , which have the best claim to challenge admiration and swell the heart with pride , those who in reality possess them , them , are usually the most diffident : for it 80.
... . " Even of mental accomplishments in the highest perfection , which have the best claim to challenge admiration and swell the heart with pride , those who in reality possess them , them , are usually the most diffident : for it 80.
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Страница 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.
Страница 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
Страница 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...
Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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!
Страница 69 - God created man in his own image, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Страница 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.