Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 psl. |
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... affront , as to revenge it by murders and cruel wars . One of the Athenian punishments for this crime , was to put out the eyes of the adulterers , depriving them thereby of those organs which first admitted the incentives of lust ...
... affront , as to revenge it by murders and cruel wars . One of the Athenian punishments for this crime , was to put out the eyes of the adulterers , depriving them thereby of those organs which first admitted the incentives of lust ...
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... affront than an attempt to impose upon any man's understrnding ? Be sides , lying , in excuse for a fault , betrays fear , than which , nothing is more dastardly and unbecoming the character of a gentleman . 1 " There is nothing more ...
... affront than an attempt to impose upon any man's understrnding ? Be sides , lying , in excuse for a fault , betrays fear , than which , nothing is more dastardly and unbecoming the character of a gentleman . 1 " There is nothing more ...
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... affront to the com pany to whom the information is communi- cated , in supposing , that slander is as welcome entertainment to them , as it is to the haber- dasher of it : the restless tongue of calumny knows no bounds , nor spares any ...
... affront to the com pany to whom the information is communi- cated , in supposing , that slander is as welcome entertainment to them , as it is to the haber- dasher of it : the restless tongue of calumny knows no bounds , nor spares any ...
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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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113 psl. - 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 psl. - 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 psl. - 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 psl. - 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!
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132 psl. - 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 psl. - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
92 psl. - 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
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151 psl. - 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!