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 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 9
Seite 6
... received with thanksgiving . " 1 An ecclesiastic of infinite humour once undertook to write against the hardships of this duty of celibacy , imposed on the Clergy . Some of his arguments were , that God desired all all creatures to ...
... received with thanksgiving . " 1 An ecclesiastic of infinite humour once undertook to write against the hardships of this duty of celibacy , imposed on the Clergy . Some of his arguments were , that God desired all all creatures to ...
Seite 10
... , except from their nearest relations , and under certain receiving legacies . restrictions , incapable of Among the Lacedemo- niaus , no man could continue single beyond 1 the the time limited by their law - giver , without 10.
... , except from their nearest relations , and under certain receiving legacies . restrictions , incapable of Among the Lacedemo- niaus , no man could continue single beyond 1 the the time limited by their law - giver , without 10.
Seite 23
... received from Nature ? and since the Almighty has commanded the sexes in an orderly way to propogate their species ; it becomes a crime * to resist this law of na- ture and of God . In In one of the Romish Canons of the Council of Trent ...
... received from Nature ? and since the Almighty has commanded the sexes in an orderly way to propogate their species ; it becomes a crime * to resist this law of na- ture and of God . In In one of the Romish Canons of the Council of Trent ...
Seite 27
... received from a fair object , that it is the beam of a Sun which warms him , that it is a charm , whose virtue is attraction , " All the passions seem to be set in motion from the impulse of love ; which kindles de- sires , excites ...
... received from a fair object , that it is the beam of a Sun which warms him , that it is a charm , whose virtue is attraction , " All the passions seem to be set in motion from the impulse of love ; which kindles de- sires , excites ...
Seite 54
... receiving the outcasts of society , who , without character cannot be supposed to get employ- ment , and are hence left to the vilest alternatives : in this insti- tution the most abandoned might be fed , concealed , and what is of ...
... receiving the outcasts of society , who , without character cannot be supposed to get employ- ment , and are hence left to the vilest alternatives : in this insti- tution the most abandoned might be fed , concealed , and what is of ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
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!