The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... desire the reward . But admitting this to be true , and that we can- not love an enemy as we love a friend ; it is yet equally certain , that we may perform those actions which are produced by love , from a higher princi- ple : we may ...
... desire the reward . But admitting this to be true , and that we can- not love an enemy as we love a friend ; it is yet equally certain , that we may perform those actions which are produced by love , from a higher princi- ple : we may ...
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... desire of mischief , can prompt one man to assert , another is by reasons equally cogent incited to re- fute . But vanity pleases herself with such light gratifications , and looks forward to pleasure so re- motely consequential that ...
... desire of mischief , can prompt one man to assert , another is by reasons equally cogent incited to re- fute . But vanity pleases herself with such light gratifications , and looks forward to pleasure so re- motely consequential that ...
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... desire of approbation was inordinate , and that a virtuous in- difference about the opinion of others would have prevented all my distress ; but I was compelled to acknowledge , that to acquire this indifference was not possible , and ...
... desire of approbation was inordinate , and that a virtuous in- difference about the opinion of others would have prevented all my distress ; but I was compelled to acknowledge , that to acquire this indifference was not possible , and ...
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... desire to be delivered from a state of de- pendence and obscurity had almost absorbed all the rest ; and it is no wonder that this desire was gratified , when scarce any other was felt ; or that , in compliance with the united ...
... desire to be delivered from a state of de- pendence and obscurity had almost absorbed all the rest ; and it is no wonder that this desire was gratified , when scarce any other was felt ; or that , in compliance with the united ...
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... desire , importuned her to stay till the captain came in , and at length with some reluct- ance she consented . About five the captain came home , and Lady Forrest immediately sent out for a chair : a chair , as it happened , could not ...
... desire , importuned her to stay till the captain came in , and at length with some reluct- ance she consented . About five the captain came home , and Lady Forrest immediately sent out for a chair : a chair , as it happened , could not ...
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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,...