Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7
... kings from kings , and why should not clerks from clerks ? That Zacharias , father of him who baptized Christ , had a wife and children : That St. Paul , who was carried to the third Heaven , brought from thence no command for celibacy ...
... kings from kings , and why should not clerks from clerks ? That Zacharias , father of him who baptized Christ , had a wife and children : That St. Paul , who was carried to the third Heaven , brought from thence no command for celibacy ...
الصفحة 8
... yet unborn , through incompetence of circumstances , although in itself a very commendable reflection , yet does not amount to a sufficient apology for a life of celibacy . A famous A famous King * welcomed to his domini- ons all 8.
... yet unborn , through incompetence of circumstances , although in itself a very commendable reflection , yet does not amount to a sufficient apology for a life of celibacy . A famous A famous King * welcomed to his domini- ons all 8.
الصفحة 9
... King * welcomed to his domini- ons all who came , for he observed , that who- ever had a mouth must eat , and whoever had hands , if not born to fortune , must work for that subsistence : and although it may be said , that the poor have ...
... King * welcomed to his domini- ons all who came , for he observed , that who- ever had a mouth must eat , and whoever had hands , if not born to fortune , must work for that subsistence : and although it may be said , that the poor have ...
الصفحة 18
... 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 , ners , and acquired a taste for ...
... 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 , ners , and acquired a taste for ...
الصفحة 28
... King's evil , to transmit to our offspring ! how happy had it been for the heir of many a great estate , had he been born a beggar , rather than to inherit his father's fortunes Vide Dr. Buchan . fortunes at the expense of inheriting ...
... King's evil , to transmit to our offspring ! how happy had it been for the heir of many a great estate , had he been born a beggar , rather than to inherit his father's fortunes Vide Dr. Buchan . fortunes at the expense of inheriting ...
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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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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
الصفحة 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
الصفحة 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
الصفحة 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!