The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... believe I felt as keen anguish as he , who , with a halter about his neck , looks up , while the other end of it is fastening to the gibbet . " The screen , however , was soon replaced , and the broken china removed ; and though the dog ...
... believe I felt as keen anguish as he , who , with a halter about his neck , looks up , while the other end of it is fastening to the gibbet . " The screen , however , was soon replaced , and the broken china removed ; and though the dog ...
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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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... believe the captain put you into a chair some hours afterwards at Spring Gar- dens . I hope , therefore , my dear lady , that this will reach your hands time enough to prevent your concealing any thing . It would have been better if Sir ...
... believe the captain put you into a chair some hours afterwards at Spring Gar- dens . I hope , therefore , my dear lady , that this will reach your hands time enough to prevent your concealing any thing . It would have been better if Sir ...
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... believe Boniface himself in- tended well , because he died a martyr with great constancy . 6 " I found , however , that while the Gospels were publicly read , the superstructure which I had built upon them was in perpetual danger : I ...
... believe Boniface himself in- tended well , because he died a martyr with great constancy . 6 " I found , however , that while the Gospels were publicly read , the superstructure which I had built upon them was in perpetual danger : I ...
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... believe , and afraid to aggravate distress , did not attempt to detect the fallacies of hope , nor reflect that every man overwhelmed with calamity believes that if that was removed he shall immediately be happy he , therefore , with ...
... believe , and afraid to aggravate distress , did not attempt to detect the fallacies of hope , nor reflect that every man overwhelmed with calamity believes that if that was removed he shall immediately be happy he , therefore , with ...
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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,...