The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... dreadful and extensive evil to society in the attempt . Bagshot killed two men ; and I have related the murder and its consequences , with such particulars as usually rouse that sensibi- lity which often lies torpid during narratives of ...
... dreadful and extensive evil to society in the attempt . Bagshot killed two men ; and I have related the murder and its consequences , with such particulars as usually rouse that sensibi- lity which often lies torpid during narratives of ...
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... dreadful is a reflection under which he only can rejoice who believes that God only reigns ; and can appropriate the promise , that all things shall work together for good . No. 48. SATURDAY , APRIL 21 , 1753 . Ibat triumphans Virgo ...
... dreadful is a reflection under which he only can rejoice who believes that God only reigns ; and can appropriate the promise , that all things shall work together for good . No. 48. SATURDAY , APRIL 21 , 1753 . Ibat triumphans Virgo ...
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... dreadful ! - I can subscribe nothing that does not reproach and torment me- . e - Adieu ! " Within a few weeks after the receipt of this letter , the unhappy lady heard that her husband was cast away in his passage to France . VOL . II ...
... dreadful ! - I can subscribe nothing that does not reproach and torment me- . e - Adieu ! " Within a few weeks after the receipt of this letter , the unhappy lady heard that her husband was cast away in his passage to France . VOL . II ...
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... dreadful miseries which his rebellion would devolve on her head . But will a candid critic prefer either of these admired personifications to those passages in the Jewish poets , where Babylon , or Jerusalem , or Tyre , are represented ...
... dreadful miseries which his rebellion would devolve on her head . But will a candid critic prefer either of these admired personifications to those passages in the Jewish poets , where Babylon , or Jerusalem , or Tyre , are represented ...
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... dreadful plague- Hell is enriched with groans and lamentations . ' This image is heightened by a Jewish author , who describes Hell , or Hades , as 6 an enormous monster , who hath extended and en- larged himself , and opened his ...
... dreadful plague- Hell is enriched with groans and lamentations . ' This image is heightened by a Jewish author , who describes Hell , or Hades , as 6 an enormous monster , who hath extended and en- larged himself , and opened his ...
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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,...