The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... behold : let it suffice that such was its effect upon those who were present , that the murderer was not , without diffi- culty , conducted alive to the prison ; and , I am confident , that few who read this story would have heard with ...
... behold : let it suffice that such was its effect upon those who were present , that the murderer was not , without diffi- culty , conducted alive to the prison ; and , I am confident , that few who read this story would have heard with ...
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... to that divine love which these sufferings ex- pressed , and how far man , in imitation of his Savi- our , can bless those who curse him , and return good for evil . I 1 We cannot , indeed , behold the example but at 8 47 . ADVENTURER .
... to that divine love which these sufferings ex- pressed , and how far man , in imitation of his Savi- our , can bless those who curse him , and return good for evil . I 1 We cannot , indeed , behold the example but at 8 47 . ADVENTURER .
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James Ferguson. We cannot , indeed , behold the example but at a distance ; nor consider it without being struck with a sense of our own debility : every man who compares his life with this divine rule , instead of exulting in his own ...
James Ferguson. We cannot , indeed , behold the example but at a distance ; nor consider it without being struck with a sense of our own debility : every man who compares his life with this divine rule , instead of exulting in his own ...
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... behold objects that are absent , or even nonex- istent , contribute to the true sublime . For this rea- son I have ever admired Minerva's speech in the fifth book of the Iliad , where she tells her favourite Diomede , that she will ...
... behold objects that are absent , or even nonex- istent , contribute to the true sublime . For this rea- son I have ever admired Minerva's speech in the fifth book of the Iliad , where she tells her favourite Diomede , that she will ...
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... light flashes under the bandage which excludes the reality , they fondly believe that they behold the sun . Lying , however , does not incur more infamy than it deserves , though other vices incur less . I 53 . 45 ADVENTURER .
... light flashes under the bandage which excludes the reality , they fondly believe that they behold the sun . Lying , however , does not incur more infamy than it deserves , though other vices incur less . I 53 . 45 ADVENTURER .
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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,...