Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 страница |
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... live on the earth , such representations must necessarily be partial and selfish , and always liable to exception : person who surrenders up his opinion , the and and forbodes his own fate on observing that of another 2 ન.
... live on the earth , such representations must necessarily be partial and selfish , and always liable to exception : person who surrenders up his opinion , the and and forbodes his own fate on observing that of another 2 ન.
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... opinion is asked concerning the married life , and the Apostle contrives such an answer as was every way calculated for the safety and welfare of the Church in a time of perse- cution , and he fits his observations to the several ...
... opinion is asked concerning the married life , and the Apostle contrives such an answer as was every way calculated for the safety and welfare of the Church in a time of perse- cution , and he fits his observations to the several ...
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... opinion , that reason hath not been able to reconcile their difference . Some of them have been satisfied with describing passions to us ; but in showing their causes and effects , have omitted to teach us how to cure them : they have ...
... opinion , that reason hath not been able to reconcile their difference . Some of them have been satisfied with describing passions to us ; but in showing their causes and effects , have omitted to teach us how to cure them : they have ...
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... opinion of a distin- guished prelate : * " Gentlemen in their mar- riages , " says the Bishop , " ought to consi- der a great many things more than fortune , though generally speaking , that is the only thing sought for . A good ...
... opinion of a distin- guished prelate : * " Gentlemen in their mar- riages , " says the Bishop , " ought to consi- der a great many things more than fortune , though generally speaking , that is the only thing sought for . A good ...
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... requires very serious delibe- ration ; for this reason , it may be thought safer to bring forward an opinion of higher authority than that of the writer of these Essays . Essays . In that most valuable and learned work " 39.
... requires very serious delibe- ration ; for this reason , it may be thought safer to bring forward an opinion of higher authority than that of the writer of these Essays . Essays . In that most valuable and learned work " 39.
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Страница 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...
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Страница 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
Страница 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Страница 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!