The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Bagshot , the robber , having lost the booty of a week among his associates at hazard , loaded his pistols , mounted his horse , and took the Kentish road , with a resolution not to return till he had re- cruited his purse . Within a ...
... Bagshot , the robber , having lost the booty of a week among his associates at hazard , loaded his pistols , mounted his horse , and took the Kentish road , with a resolution not to return till he had re- cruited his purse . Within a ...
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... Bagshot : he was mounted on his servant's horse , and rodely slowly by the side of the chaise , in which he had just placed the body of his son , whose countenance was disfi- gured with blood , and whose features were still im- pressed ...
... Bagshot : he was mounted on his servant's horse , and rodely slowly by the side of the chaise , in which he had just placed the body of his son , whose countenance was disfi- gured with blood , and whose features were still im- pressed ...
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... Bagshot and Alexander had in general the same motives and the same tendency ; they both sought a private gratification at the ex- pense of others ; and every circumstance in which they differ is greatly in favour of Bagshot . Bagshot ...
... Bagshot and Alexander had in general the same motives and the same tendency ; they both sought a private gratification at the ex- pense of others ; and every circumstance in which they differ is greatly in favour of Bagshot . Bagshot ...
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... Bagshot , and more deserved a gibbet in the proportion of a mil- lion to one . It may , perhaps , be thought absurd to inquire into the virtues of Bagshot's character ; and yet virtue has never been thought incompatible with that of ...
... Bagshot , and more deserved a gibbet in the proportion of a mil- lion to one . It may , perhaps , be thought absurd to inquire into the virtues of Bagshot's character ; and yet virtue has never been thought incompatible with that of ...
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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,...