Essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul. With remarks by the editor. To which are added two letters on suicide, from Rousseau's Eloisa. [Followed by] On the immortality of the soul, and a future state, by mr. Addison1799 |
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... Cato and Brutus , Arrea and Portia acted heroically ; thofe who now imitate their example ought to receive the fame prai- fes from pofterity . The power of committing Suicide is regarded by Pliny as an advantage which men poffefs even ...
... Cato and Brutus , Arrea and Portia acted heroically ; thofe who now imitate their example ought to receive the fame prai- fes from pofterity . The power of committing Suicide is regarded by Pliny as an advantage which men poffefs even ...
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... Cato read it twice through the very night that he deftroyed himself . The fame fophifters make it a queftion , whe- ther life can ever be an evil ? But when we con- fider the multitude of errors , torments , and vices , with which it ...
... Cato read it twice through the very night that he deftroyed himself . The fame fophifters make it a queftion , whe- ther life can ever be an evil ? But when we con- fider the multitude of errors , torments , and vices , with which it ...
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... the world , what a race of cowards did thy empire produce ! let Arria , Eponina , Lucretia , be of the number ; they were women . But Brutus , Caffius , and thou great and divine Cato , who didft fhare with LETTERS ON SUICIDE . 53.
... the world , what a race of cowards did thy empire produce ! let Arria , Eponina , Lucretia , be of the number ; they were women . But Brutus , Caffius , and thou great and divine Cato , who didft fhare with LETTERS ON SUICIDE . 53.
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David Hume. thou great and divine Cato , who didft fhare with the gods the adoration of an astonished world , thou whofe facred and august presence animated the Romans with holy zeal , and made tyrants tremble , little did thy proud ...
David Hume. thou great and divine Cato , who didft fhare with the gods the adoration of an astonished world , thou whofe facred and august presence animated the Romans with holy zeal , and made tyrants tremble , little did thy proud ...
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... Cato plunge the dagger in his breast for his mistress ? Thou weak and abject man ! what resemblance is there between Cato and thee ? Show me the common ftandard between that fublime foul and thine . Ah ! vain wretch !: hold thy peace ...
... Cato plunge the dagger in his breast for his mistress ? Thou weak and abject man ! what resemblance is there between Cato and thee ? Show me the common ftandard between that fublime foul and thine . Ah ! vain wretch !: hold thy peace ...
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abfurd actions againſt arguments becauſe bleffing body cafe cauſe Chriftian circumftance confequence confider confideration courfe creatures death defigned defire deftroy diforder difpofe diſpoſe divine endeavour eſtabliſhed eternity evil exerciſe exiftence exiſtence faculties fame fatisfaction feems felves fenfes fenfible fentiments fhall fhort fhould fhow fince fingle firſt fociety fome fomething foul fpirit ftate ftation ftill fubject fublime fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fure fyftem greateſt happineſs happy hath himſelf hope human imagine immortality infinite intereft itſelf juft laft laws leaſt lefs likewiſe lives mankind mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature obferve objects ourſelves paffion pain perfons Phædo philofophers pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent preſerve puniſhments purpoſe queftion raiſed reaſon reft ſay ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſome ſpace ſpeak ſtate ſuch Suicide ſuppoſe thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion underſtanding univerſe uſe virtue wiſdom yourſelf
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111 페이지 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
113 페이지 - ... is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
77 페이지 - But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries?
115 페이지 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
77 페이지 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress...
80 페이지 - With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection ? We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him.
77 페이지 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass in a few years ; he has all the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
79 페이지 - Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? capacities that are never to be gratified?
98 페이지 - ... as it generally happens, that virtue would make us more happy even in this life than a contrary...
111 페이지 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...