The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Aristotle's Poetics , which cer- tainly he understood and explained in a more mas- terly manner than either Beni or Castelvetro : but in one or two instances he has indulged a love of subtilty and groundless refinement . That I may not ...
... Aristotle's Poetics , which cer- tainly he understood and explained in a more mas- terly manner than either Beni or Castelvetro : but in one or two instances he has indulged a love of subtilty and groundless refinement . That I may not ...
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... Aristotle was once asked , what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods ; he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The character of a liar is at once so hateful and contemptible that even of those who have lost ...
... Aristotle was once asked , what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods ; he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The character of a liar is at once so hateful and contemptible that even of those who have lost ...
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... Aristotle would have preferred to the story of his admired Edipus , for the artificial manner in which the recognition , avayyopiois , is effected , emerging gradually from the incidents and circumstances of the story itself , and not ...
... Aristotle would have preferred to the story of his admired Edipus , for the artificial manner in which the recognition , avayyopiois , is effected , emerging gradually from the incidents and circumstances of the story itself , and not ...
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... read , the superstructure which I had built upon them was in perpetual danger : I , therefore , exerted all my influence to discontinue the practice , and at length succeeded , though Aristotle's Ethics were substituted 60 . 83 ADVENTURER .
... read , the superstructure which I had built upon them was in perpetual danger : I , therefore , exerted all my influence to discontinue the practice , and at length succeeded , though Aristotle's Ethics were substituted 60 . 83 ADVENTURER .
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James Ferguson. and at length succeeded , though Aristotle's Ethics were substituted for them in some northern churches ; but against Aristotle's Ethics I had not equal ob- jections . " During this period , therefore , my powers were ...
James Ferguson. and at length succeeded , though Aristotle's Ethics were substituted for them in some northern churches ; but against Aristotle's Ethics I had not equal ob- jections . " During this period , therefore , my powers were ...
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absurd acquainted admiration ADVENTURER Agrestis Amana Amelia Anticlea appear Aristotle bagnio Bagshot beauty behold believe Boileau caliph captain character coach conceal conduct consider contempt countenance daugh death Demosthenes desire dignity discovered distress dreadful effect elegance equally Eugenio Euripides Eutyches excellence eyes falsehood father favour felicity folly fortune Freeman genius gratified guilt hand happiness heart Homer honour hope human husband Iliad images imagination immediately kind labour Lady Forrest learned Longinus looked mankind Mantua ment mind misery morning nature ness never Nouraddin object Odyssey opinion Osmin passion perceived perhaps person Pindar pleasure poem poet Pope present produced prosopopoeia punished Quintilian racter reason received SATURDAY says scarce sentiment servant Sir James soon Sophocles soul specta spirit stockjobber suffered tain tears tenderness Theocritus thou thought Tibullus tion truth TUESDAY ulmo Ulysses vanity Ventosus vice virtue wife wish wretched writers
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Página 126 - ... with some other prey. But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every man amuses himself with projects which he knows to be improbable, and which, therefore, he resolves to pursue without daring to examine them. Whatever any man ardently desires, he very readily believes that he shall some time attain : he whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases,...