The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... sence of near six years ; that herself and her daugh- ter - in - law were come out to meet them , but were terrified with the apprehension that they might have been stopped by the man who had just been taken 47 . 3 ADVENTURER .
... sence of near six years ; that herself and her daugh- ter - in - law were come out to meet them , but were terrified with the apprehension that they might have been stopped by the man who had just been taken 47 . 3 ADVENTURER .
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James Ferguson. Besides Eugenio , he had only one child , a daugh- ter : his wife died while they were infants . His younger brother , who had acquired a very consi- derable fortune in trade , retired unmarried into the country he knew ...
James Ferguson. Besides Eugenio , he had only one child , a daugh- ter : his wife died while they were infants . His younger brother , who had acquired a very consi- derable fortune in trade , retired unmarried into the country he knew ...
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... daugh- ter , but neither asked nor suspected her motives : for he had always declared , that as he believed she would never marry against his consent , he would never urge her to marry against her own inclination . " Amelia , therefore ...
... daugh- ter , but neither asked nor suspected her motives : for he had always declared , that as he believed she would never marry against his consent , he would never urge her to marry against her own inclination . " Amelia , therefore ...
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... put back , and then lay in the river near Gravesend . " With this intelligence I returned to my daugh- ter , and told her my mind . Emmy , ' says I , ' the " captain was always in my opinion a worthy man ; 70 . 141 ADVENTURER ,
... put back , and then lay in the river near Gravesend . " With this intelligence I returned to my daugh- ter , and told her my mind . Emmy , ' says I , ' the " captain was always in my opinion a worthy man ; 70 . 141 ADVENTURER ,
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... daugh- ter of a shepherd , betrothed to the merchant Nou- raddin , from whom my body has been forced by the perfidy of a slave , and to whom my soul is united by indissoluble bonds . O ! let not the terrors of thy frown be upon me ...
... daugh- ter of a shepherd , betrothed to the merchant Nou- raddin , from whom my body has been forced by the perfidy of a slave , and to whom my soul is united by indissoluble bonds . O ! let not the terrors of thy frown be upon me ...
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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,...