Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, Death |
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To your Lordship , whose minů is so richly stored with variety of knowledge , I
need not suggest ; that the two Temples which were erected among the Romans ,
one to Virtue , and the other to Honor , were so constructed , that to see the latter
...
To your Lordship , whose minů is so richly stored with variety of knowledge , I
need not suggest ; that the two Temples which were erected among the Romans ,
one to Virtue , and the other to Honor , were so constructed , that to see the latter
...
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In such disesteem was Celibacy among the Romans , that they used every
possible means they could to discourage it ; for nothing was more usual than for
their Censors to impose a fine on old Bachelors ; while prerogatives were given
to ...
In such disesteem was Celibacy among the Romans , that they used every
possible means they could to discourage it ; for nothing was more usual than for
their Censors to impose a fine on old Bachelors ; while prerogatives were given
to ...
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... other ancient nations , it was usual to allow portions from the public treasury for
the encouragement of wedlock ; hence likewise it was , that among the Romans ,
privileges and immunities were granted to the poor parents of three children .
... other ancient nations , it was usual to allow portions from the public treasury for
the encouragement of wedlock ; hence likewise it was , that among the Romans ,
privileges and immunities were granted to the poor parents of three children .
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The lubricity of conversation , and the dalliances of married people , in the
presence of the young , the beautiful , and the susceptible , have likewise their
evil tendencies : so dangerous did the wisest and greatest Romans consider this
, that ...
The lubricity of conversation , and the dalliances of married people , in the
presence of the young , the beautiful , and the susceptible , have likewise their
evil tendencies : so dangerous did the wisest and greatest Romans consider this
, that ...
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The boast of ancestry which claims so great a share of superiority , alas ! what is
it ? the language of Marius to the Romans , when they hesitated to appoint him to
the rank of General , merely on account of his extraction , answers that question ...
The boast of ancestry which claims so great a share of superiority , alas ! what is
it ? the language of Marius to the Romans , when they hesitated to appoint him to
the rank of General , merely on account of his extraction , answers that question ...
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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.
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| Titel | Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, Death |
| Autor/in | Edward Barry |
| Verlag | Smart and Cowslade, 1806 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 20. Juni 2006 |
| Länge | 190 Seiten |
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