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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... Temples which were erected among the Romans , one to Virtue , and the other to Honor , were so constructed , that see the latter , it was necessary to pass through the former , Ipu , You , my Lord , have conspicuously proceeded to both.
... Temples which were erected among the Romans , one to Virtue , and the other to Honor , were so constructed , that see the latter , it was necessary to pass through the former , Ipu , You , my Lord , have conspicuously proceeded to both.
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... virtue is the habit of a well governed mind . ” It is but to moderate our affections , and they will be changed into virtues ; for when love and hatred , which are the sources of all other passions , shall be wisely and justly guided ...
... virtue is the habit of a well governed mind . ” It is but to moderate our affections , and they will be changed into virtues ; for when love and hatred , which are the sources of all other passions , shall be wisely and justly guided ...
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... virtue is attraction , " All the passions seem to be set in motion from the impulse of love ; which kindles de- sires , excites hopes , braves dangers , inspires courage , and like the heart , gives warmth , vigour , and animation to ...
... virtue is attraction , " All the passions seem to be set in motion from the impulse of love ; which kindles de- sires , excites hopes , braves dangers , inspires courage , and like the heart , gives warmth , vigour , and animation to ...
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... virtue , and reli- gion , and moreover should be the design of all laws , they might here , after proper probation , recover lost characters , they might be reformed ! vective and implacable severity , resolutely consign their own ...
... virtue , and reli- gion , and moreover should be the design of all laws , they might here , after proper probation , recover lost characters , they might be reformed ! vective and implacable severity , resolutely consign their own ...
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... virtue , as too great a familiarity with it . On the other hand , those of dis- cernment and experience are apt to presume on these protections ; but the fever is caught before it is felt , and poison may be received into the stomach ...
... virtue , as too great a familiarity with it . On the other hand , those of dis- cernment and experience are apt to presume on these protections ; but the fever is caught before it is felt , and poison may be received into the stomach ...
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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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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!