Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, Death |
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... sober lives , and by fewer avocations of the mind , are particularly left to solitary and strengthened imagination , while the in- dulgence of it , except in legal wedlock , would be fatal to their honour . It cannot therefore be ...
... sober lives , and by fewer avocations of the mind , are particularly left to solitary and strengthened imagination , while the in- dulgence of it , except in legal wedlock , would be fatal to their honour . It cannot therefore be ...
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... sober and temperate mode of living , besides acquring that commendation it de- serves ; in a very great degree secures to us the most desirable of all human blessings , which X which is health ! and while the mind equally participates.
... sober and temperate mode of living , besides acquring that commendation it de- serves ; in a very great degree secures to us the most desirable of all human blessings , which X which is health ! and while the mind equally participates.
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... sober men , I shall seem to be doubly drunk - but pardon me , if I affirm , that I am not the first patron of drunkenness intoxication is an antient , uni- versal practice , Jews , Trojans , and Greeks , got drunk Noah and Lot got drunk ...
... sober men , I shall seem to be doubly drunk - but pardon me , if I affirm , that I am not the first patron of drunkenness intoxication is an antient , uni- versal practice , Jews , Trojans , and Greeks , got drunk Noah and Lot got drunk ...
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... sober through tempe rance , the villain through imposture . In a country where bad morals , intrigues , trea- sons , and adulteries prevail , we doubt a state of indiscretion , where the heart shows itself without without our knowledge ...
... sober through tempe rance , the villain through imposture . In a country where bad morals , intrigues , trea- sons , and adulteries prevail , we doubt a state of indiscretion , where the heart shows itself without without our knowledge ...
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... moment . Except this fury , which is presently over , and easily avoided , be assured , that , whoever commits wicked actions when in liquor , breeds bad designs when sober . ” But , But , alas ! where is the vice , for 166.
... moment . Except this fury , which is presently over , and easily avoided , be assured , that , whoever commits wicked actions when in liquor , breeds bad designs when sober . ” But , But , alas ! where is the vice , for 166.
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Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Page 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
Page 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Page 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!