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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... consciences , what name to give the infernal deed ! " Oh , it is monstrous ! monstrous | " Methought the billows spoke , and told me of it . " Let not the dignified name of Honour continue to be perverted in its use , let not N2 the the ...
... consciences , what name to give the infernal deed ! " Oh , it is monstrous ! monstrous | " Methought the billows spoke , and told me of it . " Let not the dignified name of Honour continue to be perverted in its use , let not N2 the the ...
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... conscience ? Is he able to keep off the grim arrests of that ? Can he drown the cry of blood , and bribe his own thoughts to let him alone ? Can he fray off the vulture from his breast , that night and day is gnawing his heart , and ...
... conscience ? Is he able to keep off the grim arrests of that ? Can he drown the cry of blood , and bribe his own thoughts to let him alone ? Can he fray off the vulture from his breast , that night and day is gnawing his heart , and ...
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... conscience shall come and round him in the ear : Sir , you are to remember , that you have murdered a man , and what is more , you have murdered a soul ; you have sacrificed an immortal nature , the image of God , and the price of ...
... conscience shall come and round him in the ear : Sir , you are to remember , that you have murdered a man , and what is more , you have murdered a soul ; you have sacrificed an immortal nature , the image of God , and the price of ...
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... conscience , they will leave their marks behind them . " In the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent , may be seen this salutary law : - " Let the abominable custom of Duelling brought in by the invention of the Devil , that by ...
... conscience , they will leave their marks behind them . " In the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent , may be seen this salutary law : - " Let the abominable custom of Duelling brought in by the invention of the Devil , that by ...
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... conscience it is written with the finger of God , " Do unto others as you would they should do unto you . " The command is short - the language is plain - the duty is imperious ! -- and while loudly extolled in principle , this divine ...
... conscience it is written with the finger of God , " Do unto others as you would they should do unto you . " The command is short - the language is plain - the duty is imperious ! -- and while loudly extolled in principle , this divine ...
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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!