Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, Death |
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... habit and situation had reconciled them to seclusion , and made con- venient and voluntary to them , what at first originated from necessity . The important cares of that season obliged them not to engage in the world more than was ...
... habit and situation had reconciled them to seclusion , and made con- venient and voluntary to them , what at first originated from necessity . The important cares of that season obliged them not to engage in the world more than was ...
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... habit of a well governed mind . " It is but to moderate our affections , and they will be changed into virtues ; for when love and hatred , which are the sources of all other passions , shall be wisely and justly guided , they will ...
... habit of a well governed mind . " It is but to moderate our affections , and they will be changed into virtues ; for when love and hatred , which are the sources of all other passions , shall be wisely and justly guided , they will ...
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... habit is become incorrigible : besides , early marriage gives more time , more health , and better spi- rits " If any one shall say , that the state of matrimony is to be preferred before the state of virginity or celibacy ; and that it ...
... habit is become incorrigible : besides , early marriage gives more time , more health , and better spi- rits " If any one shall say , that the state of matrimony is to be preferred before the state of virginity or celibacy ; and that it ...
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... habits of life , difference of education , and formation of taste and after all , the most ill - conditioned temper , from the higher to the lower ranks of society , may be disciplined for their respec- tive delusions , and artfully ...
... habits of life , difference of education , and formation of taste and after all , the most ill - conditioned temper , from the higher to the lower ranks of society , may be disciplined for their respec- tive delusions , and artfully ...
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... habits of intemperance . Women , on the contrary , by more seden- tary and sober lives , and by fewer avocations of the mind , are particularly left to solitary and strengthened imagination , while the in- dulgence of it , except in ...
... habits of intemperance . Women , on the contrary , by more seden- tary and sober lives , and by fewer avocations of the mind , are particularly left to solitary and strengthened imagination , while the in- dulgence of it , except in ...
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Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 69 - God created man in his own image, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Page 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.