Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 pages |
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... enemies , and despised by the world ; a deplorable mul- titude of unhappy females , beautiful and lovely daughters , who gladly would have returned , had that been permitted , as hum- bled bled penitents to the bosom of parental cle ...
... enemies , and despised by the world ; a deplorable mul- titude of unhappy females , beautiful and lovely daughters , who gladly would have returned , had that been permitted , as hum- bled bled penitents to the bosom of parental cle ...
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... enemies of my country ! These are my statues ! These are the honours I boast of ; not left me by inhe- ritance as their's , but earned by toil , by abstinence , by valour , amidst clouds of dust and seas of blood . " In this resolute ...
... enemies of my country ! These are my statues ! These are the honours I boast of ; not left me by inhe- ritance as their's , but earned by toil , by abstinence , by valour , amidst clouds of dust and seas of blood . " In this resolute ...
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... enemies persecute , fear and disgrace , poverty and despair , calamities of every description so distract and torture him , that under this intolerable weight of complicated misery , imagine him to say , that he can bear up no longer ...
... enemies persecute , fear and disgrace , poverty and despair , calamities of every description so distract and torture him , that under this intolerable weight of complicated misery , imagine him to say , that he can bear up no longer ...
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... enemies . The Stoick Philosophers , who considered all things to lie under an irresistible neces- sity ; and the Epicureans , who expected no future state , consistently with such principles , abandoned themselves to these fatal courses ...
... enemies . The Stoick Philosophers , who considered all things to lie under an irresistible neces- sity ; and the Epicureans , who expected no future state , consistently with such principles , abandoned themselves to these fatal courses ...
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... magno spectasse gaudio Deos , cum vir ille acerrimus sui vindex gladium sacro pectori infigit , dum viscera spargit & animam manu educit . Sen. De . Provid . c . ii . they they were considered as enemies to their country whose service 108.
... magno spectasse gaudio Deos , cum vir ille acerrimus sui vindex gladium sacro pectori infigit , dum viscera spargit & animam manu educit . Sen. De . Provid . c . ii . they they were considered as enemies to their country whose service 108.
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Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Page 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
Page 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Page 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!