Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 էջ |
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... nature her imperious claims . Convenience must sometimes be allowed as a tolerable plea for remaining in the single state ; but selfishness is more frequently the prevailing motive . The taxes chargeable on a single state , either in ...
... nature her imperious claims . Convenience must sometimes be allowed as a tolerable plea for remaining in the single state ; but selfishness is more frequently the prevailing motive . The taxes chargeable on a single state , either in ...
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... which cannot hereafter be returned by any of your children to me , when I am old . " " To live unmarried is to die unmourned ; " Add to your race ; see nature's gift returned . ” ESSAY II . WEDLOCK . HITHERTO we have dwelt on 12.
... which cannot hereafter be returned by any of your children to me , when I am old . " " To live unmarried is to die unmourned ; " Add to your race ; see nature's gift returned . ” ESSAY II . WEDLOCK . HITHERTO we have dwelt on 12.
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... nature ; and the end of it is , the legitimate propagation of mankind . Different countries , according to peculiar circumstances , have not only varied in the forms of this institution , but likewise in the extent of it . The The Jews ...
... nature ; and the end of it is , the legitimate propagation of mankind . Different countries , according to peculiar circumstances , have not only varied in the forms of this institution , but likewise in the extent of it . The The Jews ...
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... nature , and wisely adapted , with respect to the degrees of consanguinity and other regulations of marriage , to maintain and perpetuate the separation of the Jewish people from the heathen . Fide Seldon , Puffendorf , & c . + Rev. Mr ...
... nature , and wisely adapted , with respect to the degrees of consanguinity and other regulations of marriage , to maintain and perpetuate the separation of the Jewish people from the heathen . Fide Seldon , Puffendorf , & c . + Rev. Mr ...
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... natural rights of more than half of the species , besides it is injurious to population ; it is a well known fact , adds he , that Arme- nia , in which a plurality of wives is not allowed , abounds more with inhabitants than any other ...
... natural rights of more than half of the species , besides it is injurious to population ; it is a well known fact , adds he , that Arme- nia , in which a plurality of wives is not allowed , abounds more with inhabitants than any other ...
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Էջ 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...
Էջ 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!
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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!
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Էջ 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
Էջ 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Էջ 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!