The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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James Ferguson. imperiously commanded to deliver , was now obliged to comply . When the victor had thus obtained the ... Sir Harry Freeman , was upon the road in his return from Gravesend , where he had been to receive an only son upon ...
James Ferguson. imperiously commanded to deliver , was now obliged to comply . When the victor had thus obtained the ... Sir Harry Freeman , was upon the road in his return from Gravesend , where he had been to receive an only son upon ...
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James Ferguson. by the women : the drunkard may easily unite with beings , devoted like himself to noisy merriment or ... Sir Thomas Brown , " do not tell lies to one another ; for truth is necessary to all societies : nor can the society ...
James Ferguson. by the women : the drunkard may easily unite with beings , devoted like himself to noisy merriment or ... Sir Thomas Brown , " do not tell lies to one another ; for truth is necessary to all societies : nor can the society ...
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James Ferguson. fear , or zeal or malignity , sufficient to induce any man to put his reputation in hazard , however ... Sir Kenelm Digby , " that every man has a desire to appear superior to others , though it were only in having seen ...
James Ferguson. fear , or zeal or malignity , sufficient to induce any man to put his reputation in hazard , however ... Sir Kenelm Digby , " that every man has a desire to appear superior to others , though it were only in having seen ...
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James Ferguson. No. 51. TUESDAY , MAY 1 , 1753 . Si quid ex Pindari , Flaccive dictis fuerit interjectum , splendet ... SIR , TO THE ADVENTURER . IN the library of the Benedictine monks at Lyons , has lately been discovered a most curious ...
James Ferguson. No. 51. TUESDAY , MAY 1 , 1753 . Si quid ex Pindari , Flaccive dictis fuerit interjectum , splendet ... SIR , TO THE ADVENTURER . IN the library of the Benedictine monks at Lyons , has lately been discovered a most curious ...
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James Ferguson. No. 52. SATURDAY , MAY 5 , 1753 . Ha nuga seria ducent In mala derisum . HOR . -Trifles such as these To serious mischiefs lead . FRANCIS . " SIR , " TO THE ADVENTURER . " THOUGH there are many calamities to which all men ...
James Ferguson. No. 52. SATURDAY , MAY 5 , 1753 . Ha nuga seria ducent In mala derisum . HOR . -Trifles such as these To serious mischiefs lead . FRANCIS . " SIR , " TO THE ADVENTURER . " THOUGH there are many calamities to which all men ...
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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,...