Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, Death |
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... and to increase the contempt , they were obliged to sing a song expressive of
their own ridicule : another punishment was , to exclude them from the exhibition
of Spartan exercises , where young women contended naked ; another severity ...
... and to increase the contempt , they were obliged to sing a song expressive of
their own ridicule : another punishment was , to exclude them from the exhibition
of Spartan exercises , where young women contended naked ; another severity ...
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It is against the law of charity ; nay , it is most barbarous and inhuman to confine
and chain down a Man to such miseries as are noť to end till his death ; and
which would admit of an easy cure , did not the severity of this positive ordinance
...
It is against the law of charity ; nay , it is most barbarous and inhuman to confine
and chain down a Man to such miseries as are noť to end till his death ; and
which would admit of an easy cure , did not the severity of this positive ordinance
...
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Fathers and Divines of old , and Philosophers themselves , agree in their
censures of extravagant propensities , and tell us that marriage should be serious
, seasonable , circumspect , and mixed with severity ; and that an intemperate
man in ...
Fathers and Divines of old , and Philosophers themselves , agree in their
censures of extravagant propensities , and tell us that marriage should be serious
, seasonable , circumspect , and mixed with severity ; and that an intemperate
man in ...
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... barbarians would have shed the tear of sympathy , they have · hardened their
hearts ; instead of grievously reflecting on themselves , how instrumental to
seduction their H % severity severity might have been , and gradually raising up
by 51.
... barbarians would have shed the tear of sympathy , they have · hardened their
hearts ; instead of grievously reflecting on themselves , how instrumental to
seduction their H % severity severity might have been , and gradually raising up
by 51.
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severity might have been , and gradually raising up by the tenderest affection a
fallen daughter , it is too often seen , that by illtimed reproaches , cutting
remonstrances , implacable wrath , and utter abandonment , many a child ,
against whom ...
severity might have been , and gradually raising up by the tenderest affection a
fallen daughter , it is too often seen , that by illtimed reproaches , cutting
remonstrances , implacable wrath , and utter abandonment , many a child ,
against whom ...
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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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