Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 |
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... desires are peremptorily checked by the ill judged bashfulness of the child , or the fierce authority of the parent . The time of marriage unquestionably must depend on the peculiar circumstances of constitution and climate : but for a ...
... desires are peremptorily checked by the ill judged bashfulness of the child , or the fierce authority of the parent . The time of marriage unquestionably must depend on the peculiar circumstances of constitution and climate : but for a ...
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... desire : but to the important considerations of personal health , so frequent- ly disregarded in matrimonial alliances , it is seriously to be wished that more attention was paid . " One great source of the diseases of chil- dren is ...
... desire : but to the important considerations of personal health , so frequent- ly disregarded in matrimonial alliances , it is seriously to be wished that more attention was paid . " One great source of the diseases of chil- dren is ...
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... Desire a medium in all things , without excepting even beauty . An agreeable and engaging figure , which does not inspire love , but benevolence , is what we ought to prefer ; it is without prejudice to the husband , and its advantage ...
... Desire a medium in all things , without excepting even beauty . An agreeable and engaging figure , which does not inspire love , but benevolence , is what we ought to prefer ; it is without prejudice to the husband , and its advantage ...
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... desire , than the chastity of love . The qualities of mind which best recom- mend themselves to the sexes , depend on the diversified circumstances of habits of life , difference of education , and formation of taste and after all , the ...
... desire , than the chastity of love . The qualities of mind which best recom- mend themselves to the sexes , depend on the diversified circumstances of habits of life , difference of education , and formation of taste and after all , the ...
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... a very salutary prescription for lasting respect and admi- ration . Marriage , which is a remedy against impure desires , should not be made the occa- sion of exciting them . " These " These violent delights have violent ends , " And 46.
... a very salutary prescription for lasting respect and admi- ration . Marriage , which is a remedy against impure desires , should not be made the occa- sion of exciting them . " These " These violent delights have violent ends , " And 46.
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Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride ... Edward Barry Podgląd niedostępny - 2018 |
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Strona 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...
Strona 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!
Strona 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.
Strona 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!
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Strona 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
Strona 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Strona 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!