... whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining absolute power over... wives. But you must remember that Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken--and notwithstanding all your wise Laws and Maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our Masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a perfect Tragedy is the noblest Production of human Nature, so it is capable of giving the Mind one of the most delightful and... most improving Entertainments. A virtuous Man (says Seneca) strugling [sic] with Misfortunes, is such a Spectacle as Gods might look upon with Pleasure: And such a Pleasure it is which one meets with in the Representation of a well-written Tragedy. Diversions of this kind wear out of our Thoughts every thing that is mean and little. They cherish and cultivate that Humanity which is the Ornament of our Nature. They soften Insolence, sooth [sic] Affliction, and subdue the Mind to the Dispensations of Providence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a... nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure tho...se of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But wonder at a greater wonder, for to us Created nature doth these things subdue,... But their Creator, whom sin nor nature tied, For us, his Creatures and his foes, hath died.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic c...onqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
in your mind inwardly despise The brittle world so full of doubleness,... With the vile flesh, and right soon arise Out of your sleep of mortal heaviness; Subdue the devil with grace and mekeness,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a prodigious growth this English race, especially the American branch of it, is having! How soon will it subdue and occupy al...l the wild parts of this continent and of the islands adjacent. No prophecy, however seemingly extravagant, as to future achievements in this way [is] likely to equal the reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When man has neither the strength to subdue his underworld powers--which are really the ancient powers of his old, superseded self...; nor the wit to placate them with sacrifice and the burnt holocaust; then they come back at him, and destroy him again. Hence every new conquest of life means a "harrowing of Hell."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »