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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... heart remain inviolable , they cannot be altered . To such a Patron , I am proud of the permis sion which you have granted me , of dedicating these Essays . I have the Honor to be , MY LORD , With the utmost respect , Your Lordship's ...
... heart remain inviolable , they cannot be altered . To such a Patron , I am proud of the permis sion which you have granted me , of dedicating these Essays . I have the Honor to be , MY LORD , With the utmost respect , Your Lordship's ...
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... heart , gives warmth , vigour , and animation to the whole frame : after all , however , it must be admitted , that love is more a matter of feeling than of ment , the subtilty of this passion remains a secret , but the operations of it ...
... heart , gives warmth , vigour , and animation to the whole frame : after all , however , it must be admitted , that love is more a matter of feeling than of ment , the subtilty of this passion remains a secret , but the operations of it ...
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... heart the surest tokens of eventual triumph ! If the common patience of human nature can wait in good humour for these pantomi- mical scenes , the allotment of human life will not afford the time . A year , perhaps two or more of ...
... heart the surest tokens of eventual triumph ! If the common patience of human nature can wait in good humour for these pantomi- mical scenes , the allotment of human life will not afford the time . A year , perhaps two or more of ...
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... heart ; and for so desirable an end , let the means of attaining it , be assiduously cultivated . It was a wise and true observation of Plutarch's , " That vessels which are compacted of divers parts , or glued together of divers pieces ...
... heart ; and for so desirable an end , let the means of attaining it , be assiduously cultivated . It was a wise and true observation of Plutarch's , " That vessels which are compacted of divers parts , or glued together of divers pieces ...
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... in the heart , irradiate the countenance , and be seen in the whole deportment of those , whose duty and happiness are so essentially connected with it . :: AS ESSAY III . SEDUCTION . SEDUCTION , that distressing word 48.
... in the heart , irradiate the countenance , and be seen in the whole deportment of those , whose duty and happiness are so essentially connected with it . :: AS ESSAY III . SEDUCTION . SEDUCTION , that distressing word 48.
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Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride ... Edward Barry Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 144 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Seite 56 - 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 110 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honours...
Seite 77 - Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Seite 56 - 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 77 - 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 153 - 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, can this be Death...
Seite 115 - 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!
Seite 69 - God created man in his own image, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Seite 20 - God : duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained. One was the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and praise of God.