Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 oldal |
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7. oldal
... health and even life itself may in several instances demand such caution ; but it should be remembered at the same time , that with other constitutions , health and life are are more frequently endangered , if not sacri- ficed by 7.
... health and even life itself may in several instances demand such caution ; but it should be remembered at the same time , that with other constitutions , health and life are are more frequently endangered , if not sacri- ficed by 7.
8. oldal
... frequently endangered , if not sacri- ficed by refusing to nature her imperious claims . Convenience must sometimes be allowed as a tolerable plea for remaining in the single state ; but selfishness is more frequently the prevailing ...
... frequently endangered , if not sacri- ficed by refusing to nature her imperious claims . Convenience must sometimes be allowed as a tolerable plea for remaining in the single state ; but selfishness is more frequently the prevailing ...
24. oldal
... frequently produced , where these ardent desires are peremptorily checked by the ill judged bashfulness of the child , or the fierce authority of the parent . The time of marriage unquestionably must depend on the peculiar circumstances ...
... frequently produced , where these ardent desires are peremptorily checked by the ill judged bashfulness of the child , or the fierce authority of the parent . The time of marriage unquestionably must depend on the peculiar circumstances ...
28. oldal
... frequent- ly disregarded in matrimonial alliances , it is seriously to be wished that more attention was paid . " One great source of the diseases of chil- dren is , the unhealthiness of Parents . It would be as reasonable to expect a ...
... frequent- ly disregarded in matrimonial alliances , it is seriously to be wished that more attention was paid . " One great source of the diseases of chil- dren is , the unhealthiness of Parents . It would be as reasonable to expect a ...
35. oldal
... frequently united in a graceful and lovely woman than some will allow , or others de- sire . For strength of intellect , variety of knowledge , and intrepidity of mind , associ- ated at the same time with all the amiable sensibilities ...
... frequently united in a graceful and lovely woman than some will allow , or others de- sire . For strength of intellect , variety of knowledge , and intrepidity of mind , associ- ated at the same time with all the amiable sensibilities ...
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Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride ... Edward Barry Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2018 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
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
Népszerű szakaszok
113. oldal - 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...
189. oldal - 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!
92. oldal - 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.
190. oldal - 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!
172. oldal - 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.
132. oldal - 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.
171. oldal - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
92. oldal - 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
47. oldal - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
151. oldal - 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!