The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Characters . Hawkesworth . Warton . 72. The Folly of Human Wishes and Schemes to cor- rect the moral Government of the World . The History of Nouraddin and Amana . Hawkesworth . 73. The History of Nouraddin and Amana concluded ...
... Characters . Hawkesworth . Warton . 72. The Folly of Human Wishes and Schemes to cor- rect the moral Government of the World . The History of Nouraddin and Amana . Hawkesworth . 73. The History of Nouraddin and Amana concluded ...
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... character ; and yet virtue has never been thought incompatible with that of Alexander . Alexander , we are told , gave proof of his greatness of mind by his contempt of danger ; but , as Bagshot's danger was equally voluntary and ...
... character ; and yet virtue has never been thought incompatible with that of Alexander . Alexander , we are told , gave proof of his greatness of mind by his contempt of danger ; but , as Bagshot's danger was equally voluntary and ...
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... character- istic of a religion , which is not of man but of God . It could be delivered as a precept only by him who lived and died to establish it by his example . At the close of that season , in which human frailty has commemorated ...
... character- istic of a religion , which is not of man but of God . It could be delivered as a precept only by him who lived and died to establish it by his example . At the close of that season , in which human frailty has commemorated ...
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... character of both would then assume a very dif- ferent aspect , love would again be excited by the return of its object , and each would be impatient to exchange acknowledgments , and recover the feli- city which was so near being lost ...
... character of both would then assume a very dif- ferent aspect , love would again be excited by the return of its object , and each would be impatient to exchange acknowledgments , and recover the feli- city which was so near being lost ...
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... character , however it may deserve punish- ment , excites hatred only in proportion as it appears to be malicious ; and pure malice has never been imputed to human beings . The wretch , who has thus deceived and injured us , should be ...
... character , however it may deserve punish- ment , excites hatred only in proportion as it appears to be malicious ; and pure malice has never been imputed to human beings . The wretch , who has thus deceived and injured us , should be ...
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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,...