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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... 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 province of the Turkish Empire . " If we will make good laws ...
... 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 province of the Turkish Empire . " If we will make good laws ...
Էջ 120
... injurious to others , it is harmless and innocent , and they shelter their falsehoods under the softer name of untruths . These persons are foolish enough to imagine , that if they can recite any thing wonderful they draw the attention ...
... injurious to others , it is harmless and innocent , and they shelter their falsehoods under the softer name of untruths . These persons are foolish enough to imagine , that if they can recite any thing wonderful they draw the attention ...
Էջ 128
... injurious act to our neighbour , but moreover requires us to suffer no harm to be done to him , which may be in our power to prevent . Those who are addicted to this vile practice of the tongue , conscious of the odiousness justly ...
... injurious act to our neighbour , but moreover requires us to suffer no harm to be done to him , which may be in our power to prevent . Those who are addicted to this vile practice of the tongue , conscious of the odiousness justly ...
Էջ 140
... injurious to the cause of virtue . When Archelaus invited Socrates to his court for the purpose of conferring on him reward and honours , that brave philosopher is said to have made answer to those who brought the message , in these ...
... injurious to the cause of virtue . When Archelaus invited Socrates to his court for the purpose of conferring on him reward and honours , that brave philosopher is said to have made answer to those who brought the message , in these ...
Էջ 145
... injurious by his actions than by his words . It is for this reason that the whole force of human law is bent to restrain injus- tice , and the happiness of every society will increase in proportion to this restraint . * " We very much ...
... injurious by his actions than by his words . It is for this reason that the whole force of human law is bent to restrain injus- tice , and the happiness of every society will increase in proportion to this restraint . * " We very much ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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?
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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!
Էջ 69 - God created man in his own image, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Էջ 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.