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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... passions . Cecrops , who was raised King of Athens , among other useful institutions , introduced that of Matrimony : it was afterward re- ceived by all the inhabitants ; for no sooner had they civilized their undisciplined man- ners ...
... passions . Cecrops , who was raised King of Athens , among other useful institutions , introduced that of Matrimony : it was afterward re- ceived by all the inhabitants ; for no sooner had they civilized their undisciplined man- ners ...
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... passions , that we may the better govern them . Philosophers who have written on these subjects are so divided in opinion , that reason hath not been able to reconcile their difference . Some of them have been satisfied with describing ...
... passions , that we may the better govern them . Philosophers who have written on these subjects are so divided in opinion , that reason hath not been able to reconcile their difference . Some of them have been satisfied with describing ...
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... passions , shall be wisely and justly guided , they will become excellent virtues , and be trained into wisdom , temperance , fortitude , and justice . Is it not then unfair , nay even barbarous , to affect to smother some pas- sions ...
... passions , shall be wisely and justly guided , they will become excellent virtues , and be trained into wisdom , temperance , fortitude , and justice . Is it not then unfair , nay even barbarous , to affect to smother some pas- sions ...
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... 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.
... 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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... passion . Some Philosophers have affirmed , “ That love is a pleasing wound , which man hath received from a fair object , that it is the beam of a Sun which warms him , that it is a charm , whose virtue is attraction , " All the passions ...
... passion . Some Philosophers have affirmed , “ That love is a pleasing wound , which man hath received from a fair object , that it is the beam of a Sun which warms him , that it is a charm , whose virtue is attraction , " All the passions ...
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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!