Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 עמודים |
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עמוד 154
... drinking to excess : for the subsequent inconveniences to which some constitutions are particularly liable , may make them very cautious in this respect , and impose on them , very reluc- tantly , an adequate abstemiousness . While such ...
... drinking to excess : for the subsequent inconveniences to which some constitutions are particularly liable , may make them very cautious in this respect , and impose on them , very reluc- tantly , an adequate abstemiousness . While such ...
עמוד 155
... drinks only for thirst , that lives by reason , not by example . " " Let us curb , " adds he , " our appetites , and encou rage virtue , let my bed be plain and clean , and my meat without much expense ; occa sional experiments of ...
... drinks only for thirst , that lives by reason , not by example . " " Let us curb , " adds he , " our appetites , and encou rage virtue , let my bed be plain and clean , and my meat without much expense ; occa sional experiments of ...
עמוד 156
... drinking , we shall consider the abuses of these in a subsequent Essay . " True bliss is frugal , every brook and field " A full supply for life and nature yield , " Excess of fortune kills , or cloys , " But temp'rance is the health of ...
... drinking , we shall consider the abuses of these in a subsequent Essay . " True bliss is frugal , every brook and field " A full supply for life and nature yield , " Excess of fortune kills , or cloys , " But temp'rance is the health of ...
עמוד 163
... drinking also sets men a talking about religion ; and farmers never dispute so clearly for Luther against Eckius , as when they are animated with strong liquor . - Poets and Preachers can do nothing without plenty of drink - and with it ...
... drinking also sets men a talking about religion ; and farmers never dispute so clearly for Luther against Eckius , as when they are animated with strong liquor . - Poets and Preachers can do nothing without plenty of drink - and with it ...
עמוד 164
... drinking has been asserted to have its medical uses , particularly in languid , rickety consti- tutions ; for by thus causing a stimulus , the blood is propelled to the smallest vessels , and by enlivening and making general the cir ...
... drinking has been asserted to have its medical uses , particularly in languid , rickety consti- tutions ; for by thus causing a stimulus , the blood is propelled to the smallest vessels , and by enlivening and making general the cir ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
affront allowed ancient Athenian Athens avarice better blood body cation cause Celibacy character chastity Christian commanded committed conscience considered contempt Council of Trent courage crime death desire disease dismal divine drachms dreadful drinking dropsies drunk drunkenness duel duelling duty effects enemies Epicureans ESSAY evil excess exposed falsehood fear feel fleep fortune friends gibbets give gouts guilty habit happiness heart hence honour human injurious instances Jews justice justly King live Lord Lycurgus mankind manner marriage married matrimony mind misery Montesquieu moral murdered nature never oaths obliged observed occa occasions parents passion person Plato Plutarch Polygamy pride principle Puffendorf punishment reason revenge Romans sacred salutary says scurvy seduction SELF-MURDER sentiments sions slander sober society Solon soul spect spirit suicide tears tell temperance thing thou thought tion truth usually valour vice Vide virtue VITAL spark Wedlock wise woman women writer
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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!
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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!
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
עמוד 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
עמוד 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
עמוד 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!