Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 pages |
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... oaths , if either in themselves impro- per , or tending to the prejudice of a third party , are capable of a dispensation ; and hath not the marriage covenant a good right to the same favour ? Nor will it signify any thing A G 2 thing ...
... oaths , if either in themselves impro- per , or tending to the prejudice of a third party , are capable of a dispensation ; and hath not the marriage covenant a good right to the same favour ? Nor will it signify any thing A G 2 thing ...
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... oath he has taken of allegiance to the King , his laws , and government ! Let all those who hold rank or departments under the crown , make the same application to themselves , and if they pretend to honour , let them take heed to be ...
... oath he has taken of allegiance to the King , his laws , and government ! Let all those who hold rank or departments under the crown , make the same application to themselves , and if they pretend to honour , let them take heed to be ...
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... oaths , and both of them to be as trifles ! But the sacred interests of truth will not allow of such impious frivolousness ! * " Let thy oaths , " says a writer , " be sacred , and promises be made upon the altar of thy heart . Call not ...
... oaths , and both of them to be as trifles ! But the sacred interests of truth will not allow of such impious frivolousness ! * " Let thy oaths , " says a writer , " be sacred , and promises be made upon the altar of thy heart . Call not ...
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... oaths , and promises inviolable . These are not the men for whom the fetters of law were first forged ; they needed not the so- lemness of oaths ; by keeping their faith they swear , and evacuate such confirmations . " Although we have ...
... oaths , and promises inviolable . These are not the men for whom the fetters of law were first forged ; they needed not the so- lemness of oaths ; by keeping their faith they swear , and evacuate such confirmations . " Although we have ...
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... oath what he had asserted , the Judges unanimously declared that his word was sufficient . " Truth , " says a venerable writer , " is the beginning of heroical virtue , ' tis the most lively resemblance and imitation of Him who is ...
... oath what he had asserted , the Judges unanimously declared that his word was sufficient . " Truth , " says a venerable writer , " is the beginning of heroical virtue , ' tis the most lively resemblance and imitation of Him who is ...
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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!