Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 páginas |
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... 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 - The Greeks published encomiums on ...
... 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 - The Greeks published encomiums on ...
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... drunk without getting dead drunk ? St. Paul's advice merely is , do not get drunk - by which he only means , do not get excessively drunk . " Surely the most experienced advocate for intoxication could not have given a more witty turn ...
... drunk without getting dead drunk ? St. Paul's advice merely is , do not get drunk - by which he only means , do not get excessively drunk . " Surely the most experienced advocate for intoxication could not have given a more witty turn ...
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... drunken fit , mur- dered Philotas in cold blood . If drunken- ness has its phrensies , what passion has not also ? The difference is , that the others re- main in the heart ; but , this is kindled and extinguished in a moment . Except ...
... drunken fit , mur- dered Philotas in cold blood . If drunken- ness has its phrensies , what passion has not also ? The difference is , that the others re- main in the heart ; but , this is kindled and extinguished in a moment . Except ...
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... * Justly therefore did the Spartan law - giver prohibit unnecessary drinking , which debili- tates both body and mind . At Athens , if an Archon * was convicted of * A chief Magistrate . of being drunk , he was , by the laws 167.
... * Justly therefore did the Spartan law - giver prohibit unnecessary drinking , which debili- tates both body and mind . At Athens , if an Archon * was convicted of * A chief Magistrate . of being drunk , he was , by the laws 167.
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... drunk , he was , by the laws of Solon , put to death ; and in an island * which abounded with wine , in order to restrain the inhabitants from the immoderate use of it ; their law - giver , † who was one of the seven sages , enacted ...
... drunk , he was , by the laws of Solon , put to death ; and in an island * which abounded with wine , in order to restrain the inhabitants from the immoderate use of it ; their law - giver , † who was one of the seven sages , enacted ...
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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
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Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Página 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
Página 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Página 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!