The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... excellence , will smite his breast like the publican , and cry out , " God be merciful to me a sinner ! " Thus to acquaint us with our- selves may , perhaps , be one use of the precept ; but the precept cannot , surely , be considered ...
... excellence , will smite his breast like the publican , and cry out , " God be merciful to me a sinner ! " Thus to acquaint us with our- selves may , perhaps , be one use of the precept ; but the precept cannot , surely , be considered ...
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... excellence to perfection . The reputation of his house now brings round him a daily confluence of visitants , and every one tells him of some elegance which he has hitherto overlooked , some convenience not yet procured , or some new ...
... excellence to perfection . The reputation of his house now brings round him a daily confluence of visitants , and every one tells him of some elegance which he has hitherto overlooked , some convenience not yet procured , or some new ...
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... excellence , I am persuaded , will be universally acknowledged , because it will be felt . I shall , however , add some remarks , which , perhaps , may not occur to every mind , as every mind has not acquired a habit of speculation ...
... excellence , I am persuaded , will be universally acknowledged , because it will be felt . I shall , however , add some remarks , which , perhaps , may not occur to every mind , as every mind has not acquired a habit of speculation ...
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... excellence of the lat- ter ; a task I am the more readily induced to un- dertake , as so little is performed in the dissertation prefixed by Broome to Pope's translation of this work , which one may venture to pronounce is con- fused ...
... excellence of the lat- ter ; a task I am the more readily induced to un- dertake , as so little is performed in the dissertation prefixed by Broome to Pope's translation of this work , which one may venture to pronounce is con- fused ...
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... excellence , none seems to have been more exalted above the common rate of humanity than the man known about two centuries ago by the appellation of the Admirable Crichton ; of whose history , whatever we may suppress as surpassing ...
... excellence , none seems to have been more exalted above the common rate of humanity than the man known about two centuries ago by the appellation of the Admirable Crichton ; of whose history , whatever we may suppress as surpassing ...
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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,...