Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 sivua |
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... . " " The practice of Polygamy , " says an emi- nent author , * " is brutal , destructive of friendship and moral sentiment , inconsist- D ent * Dr. Percival Phil . Traną . ent with the great end of marriage ; the edu- 17.
... . " " The practice of Polygamy , " says an emi- nent author , * " is brutal , destructive of friendship and moral sentiment , inconsist- D ent * Dr. Percival Phil . Traną . ent with the great end of marriage ; the edu- 17.
Sivu 39
... moral and reli- gious are in perpetual discord : when instead of the man being 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 ...
... moral and reli- gious are in perpetual discord : when instead of the man being 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 ...
Sivu 43
... Moral Bond , con- sist rather in the union of Souls than of Bodies . Should we say otherwise of Mar- riage , we should degrade it below the coup- ling of beasts , in which we frequently observe some sort of affection and good - will in ...
... Moral Bond , con- sist rather in the union of Souls than of Bodies . Should we say otherwise of Mar- riage , we should degrade it below the coup- ling of beasts , in which we frequently observe some sort of affection and good - will in ...
Sivu 72
... morals had sustained , Imperfect as may be these , hints , they are thrown out with much humanity and diffi- dence ; with a view of preventing the increase of illegitimate children , who are very unde- servedly the objects either of ...
... morals had sustained , Imperfect as may be these , hints , they are thrown out with much humanity and diffi- dence ; with a view of preventing the increase of illegitimate children , who are very unde- servedly the objects either of ...
Sivu 107
... Cæsar's government , though he had born with Pompey's , " plunged a dagger into his breast , tore his own entrails , and that he might taste death , rent his soul from his body , and that P 2 that with his own hands . " The moral Seneca ...
... Cæsar's government , though he had born with Pompey's , " plunged a dagger into his breast , tore his own entrails , and that he might taste death , rent his soul from his body , and that P 2 that with his own hands . " The moral Seneca ...
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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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Sivu 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...
Sivu 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!
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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!
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Sivu 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
Sivu 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Sivu 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!