Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 Seiten |
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... contempt , they were obliged to sing a song expressive of their own ridicule : another punishment was , to exclude them from the exhibition of Spartan exercises , where young women con- tended naked : another severity imposed on them ...
... contempt , they were obliged to sing a song expressive of their own ridicule : another punishment was , to exclude them from the exhibition of Spartan exercises , where young women con- tended naked : another severity imposed on them ...
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... contempt and misery which are the sure companions of it . Even parents themselves will bruise the broken reed and plant thorns on the bed of contrition and of pain : where barbarians would have shed the tear of sym- pathy , they have ...
... contempt and misery which are the sure companions of it . Even parents themselves will bruise the broken reed and plant thorns on the bed of contrition and of pain : where barbarians would have shed the tear of sym- pathy , they have ...
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... contempt and actual negligence of a decent exterior , more fre- quently points out the character , where that passion has taken much deeper root : for to many an arrogant sloven of the present day , may justly be applied the reproof of ...
... contempt and actual negligence of a decent exterior , more fre- quently points out the character , where that passion has taken much deeper root : for to many an arrogant sloven of the present day , may justly be applied the reproof of ...
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... contempt of life , he refuses to hold it , subject to those casualities , which are inseparable from mortality ; and will go on even to applaud the act of self- murder , and call it a Roman virtue ! but though a heathen gloss is ...
... contempt of life , he refuses to hold it , subject to those casualities , which are inseparable from mortality ; and will go on even to applaud the act of self- murder , and call it a Roman virtue ! but though a heathen gloss is ...
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... the moral world , a contempt of his scriptures , an awful temerity of running the hazard of the die , or a daring presumption of divine pardon , must have strongly influenced the mind . The The fear of death is implanted in us , by 110.
... the moral world , a contempt of his scriptures , an awful temerity of running the hazard of the die , or a daring presumption of divine pardon , must have strongly influenced the mind . The The fear of death is implanted in us , by 110.
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Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride ... Edward Barry Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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...
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Seite 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
Seite 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Seite 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!