The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... elegance , and with nervous bre- vity ; yet I must be pardoned for affirming , that he who labours to lessen the dignity of human nature destroys many efficacious motives for practising worthy actions , and deserves ill of his fellow ...
... elegance , and with nervous bre- vity ; yet I must be pardoned for affirming , that he who labours to lessen the dignity of human nature destroys many efficacious motives for practising worthy actions , and deserves ill of his fellow ...
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... elegance , scattered his money with profusion , encouraged every scheme of costly pleasure , spoke of petty losses with negligence , and on the day before an execution entered his doors , had proclaimed at a public table his resolution ...
... elegance , scattered his money with profusion , encouraged every scheme of costly pleasure , spoke of petty losses with negligence , and on the day before an execution entered his doors , had proclaimed at a public table his resolution ...
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... elegance . Of this house he was no sooner master than he summoned twenty workmen to his assistance , tore up the floors and laid them anew , stripped off the wainscot , drew the windows from their frames , altered the disposition of ...
... elegance . Of this house he was no sooner master than he summoned twenty workmen to his assistance , tore up the floors and laid them anew , stripped off the wainscot , drew the windows from their frames , altered the disposition of ...
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... elegance which he has hitherto overlooked , some convenience not yet procured , or some new mode in ornament or furniture . Bob , who had no wish but to be admired , nor any guide but the fashion , thought every thing beautiful in ...
... elegance which he has hitherto overlooked , some convenience not yet procured , or some new mode in ornament or furniture . Bob , who had no wish but to be admired , nor any guide but the fashion , thought every thing beautiful in ...
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... elegance and propriety of which similitude need not be pointed out , and cannot be excelled . 6 6 6 " I have purposely reserved one comparison for a conclusion , not only for the sake of its beauty and justness , but because it ...
... elegance and propriety of which similitude need not be pointed out , and cannot be excelled . 6 6 6 " I have purposely reserved one comparison for a conclusion , not only for the sake of its beauty and justness , but because it ...
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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,...