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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... yet she holds it to be of sacred appointment , D 2 and * The reason which some assign for calling it a sacrament , is , that it sometimes gives men the gift of repentance . and therefore requires it to be solemnized by her ministers 19.
... yet she holds it to be of sacred appointment , D 2 and * The reason which some assign for calling it a sacrament , is , that it sometimes gives men the gift of repentance . and therefore requires it to be solemnized by her ministers 19.
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... 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 is better and more happy to marry than to continue in ...
... 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 is better and more happy to marry than to continue in ...
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... strive to conceal its fury . The Pla- tonics give love a spirit , and an absolute power over the passions ; the Stoics term love a fury , and judging of its nature by effects , effects , they cannot suppose , that the soul is 26.
... strive to conceal its fury . The Pla- tonics give love a spirit , and an absolute power over the passions ; the Stoics term love a fury , and judging of its nature by effects , effects , they cannot suppose , that the soul is 26.
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... gives warmth , vigour , and animation to the whole frame : after all , however , it must be admitted , that love is more a matter of feeling than of argu- ment , the subtilty of this passion remains a secret , but the operations of it ...
... gives warmth , vigour , and animation to the whole frame : after all , however , it must be admitted , that love is more a matter of feeling than of argu- ment , the subtilty of this passion remains a secret , but the operations of it ...
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... give no small occasion of remonstrance when they begin to abate in the latter . But in the selection of a partner , literary acquirements , so great a treasure in the estimation of many , are not subject to this mutability ; like a ...
... give no small occasion of remonstrance when they begin to abate in the latter . But in the selection of a partner , literary acquirements , so great a treasure in the estimation of many , are not subject to this mutability ; like a ...
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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!