The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Effects of false Apologies and Pretences : a Story . 55. The Story continued . 56. The Story concluded . Hawkesworth . Hawkesworth . Hawkesworth . 57. Translation of the Manuscript of Longinus con- cluded . Warton . 58. Presumption of ...
... Effects of false Apologies and Pretences : a Story . 55. The Story continued . 56. The Story concluded . Hawkesworth . Hawkesworth . Hawkesworth . 57. Translation of the Manuscript of Longinus con- cluded . Warton . 58. Presumption of ...
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... Effects of false Apologies and Pretences : a Story . 55. The Story continued . 56. The Story concluded . Hawkesworth . Hawkesworth . Hawkesworth . 57. Translation of the Manuscript of Longinus con- cluded . Warton . 58. Presumption of ...
... Effects of false Apologies and Pretences : a Story . 55. The Story continued . 56. The Story concluded . Hawkesworth . Hawkesworth . Hawkesworth . 57. Translation of the Manuscript of Longinus con- cluded . Warton . 58. Presumption of ...
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... effects , to render him the object of veneration and applause . Bagshot , the robber , having lost the booty of a week among his associates at hazard , loaded his pistols , mounted his horse , and took the Kentish road , with a ...
... effects , to render him the object of veneration and applause . Bagshot , the robber , having lost the booty of a week among his associates at hazard , loaded his pistols , mounted his horse , and took the Kentish road , with a ...
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... effect upon those who were present , that the murderer was not , without diffi- culty , conducted alive to the prison ; and , I am confident , that few who read this story would have heard with regret that he was torn to pieces by the ...
... effect upon those who were present , that the murderer was not , without diffi- culty , conducted alive to the prison ; and , I am confident , that few who read this story would have heard with regret that he was torn to pieces by the ...
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... effect of weak- ness or vanity , which is common to all mankind : the 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 ...
... effect of weak- ness or vanity , which is common to all mankind : the 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 ...
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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,...