Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, Death |
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... practice of Polygamy ; whereas in Germany , they are not allowed this liberty , and in Italy very rarely ; and only in case a man hath lived many years with one wife and has no family . The ancient Germans , are said by Tacitus , to be ...
... practice of Polygamy ; whereas in Germany , they are not allowed this liberty , and in Italy very rarely ; and only in case a man hath lived many years with one wife and has no family . The ancient Germans , are said by Tacitus , to be ...
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... practice were among the faithful , how much it wrought its own punishment with it , and how dubious and equivocal those passages are , in which it appears to have the sanction of divine approbation , how fre- quently the messengers of ...
... practice were among the faithful , how much it wrought its own punishment with it , and how dubious and equivocal those passages are , in which it appears to have the sanction of divine approbation , how fre- quently the messengers of ...
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... Polygamy . " " The practice of Polygamy , " says an emi- nent author , * " is brutal , destructive of friendship and moral sentiment , inconsist- D ent * Dr. Percival Phil . Traną . ent with the great end of marriage ; the edu- 17.
... Polygamy . " " The practice of Polygamy , " says an emi- nent author , * " is brutal , destructive of friendship and moral sentiment , inconsist- D ent * Dr. Percival Phil . Traną . ent with the great end of marriage ; the edu- 17.
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... practice , that reflec- tion is abandoned and their manners are desperate . * Will parents then , who ought to be the guardian angels of their daughters happiness , “ to drop a tear on their frailties , and blot them out for ever ...
... practice , that reflec- tion is abandoned and their manners are desperate . * Will parents then , who ought to be the guardian angels of their daughters happiness , “ to drop a tear on their frailties , and blot them out for ever ...
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... practice of single combat , or avenging personal affronts by duel , cannot make a virtuous claim to such principles , and therefore has no right to the honourable name of courage : it was unknown to the heroes of Greece and Rome , and ...
... practice of single combat , or avenging personal affronts by duel , cannot make a virtuous claim to such principles , and therefore has no right to the honourable name of courage : it was unknown to the heroes of Greece and Rome , and ...
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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!