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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... commit to them the charge of the pub- lic trust , The Church of England although she does not consider matrimony in the nature of a sacrament , * as does the Romish Church , yet she holds it to be of sacred appointment , D 2 and * The ...
... commit to them the charge of the pub- lic trust , The Church of England although she does not consider matrimony in the nature of a sacrament , * as does the Romish Church , yet she holds it to be of sacred appointment , D 2 and * The ...
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... ; thou hast separated friends , and made desolation . in families ; thou hast committed duels , sui- cides , and murders : thou hast filled the streets K 2 streets with pitiable wretches , instructed gamblers , emboldened highwaymen 67.
... ; thou hast separated friends , and made desolation . in families ; thou hast committed duels , sui- cides , and murders : thou hast filled the streets K 2 streets with pitiable wretches , instructed gamblers , emboldened highwaymen 67.
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... the desperate experiment of relief is made , and he forces on himself a violent death ! He , who thus becomes his own executi- oner , independently of committing so cruel an an act against his own nature , must have doubts 111.
... the desperate experiment of relief is made , and he forces on himself a violent death ! He , who thus becomes his own executi- oner , independently of committing so cruel an an act against his own nature , must have doubts 111.
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... - ral in its influence , irreparable in its conse- quences : a vice that strikes at once three mortal blows ; it wounds him who commits it ; him against whom it is committed ; and S him him who sees it committed : and is tolerated in 129.
... - ral in its influence , irreparable in its conse- quences : a vice that strikes at once three mortal blows ; it wounds him who commits it ; him against whom it is committed ; and S him him who sees it committed : and is tolerated in 129.
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... committed : and is tolerated in society only because every one has an invincible inclination to commit it . " 2 It is therefore the bounden duty of all soci eties , whether of private or public descrip tion , who are not the patrons of ...
... committed : and is tolerated in society only because every one has an invincible inclination to commit it . " 2 It is therefore the bounden duty of all soci eties , whether of private or public descrip tion , who are not the patrons of ...
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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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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!