The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... eye before which they are exhibited ; yet it is in our power to change the passion , and to cause either love or hatred to be excited by placing the same object in different circumstances ; as a changeable silk of blue and yellow may be ...
... eye before which they are exhibited ; yet it is in our power to change the passion , and to cause either love or hatred to be excited by placing the same object in different circumstances ; as a changeable silk of blue and yellow may be ...
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... eye , only to supply them with sub- jects of conversation ! Others there are that amuse themselves with the dissemination of falsehood , at greater hazard of de- tection and disgrace ; men marked out by some lucky planet for universal ...
... eye , only to supply them with sub- jects of conversation ! Others there are that amuse themselves with the dissemination of falsehood , at greater hazard of de- tection and disgrace ; men marked out by some lucky planet for universal ...
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... eyes and ears , and to whom all persons and affairs are thus intimately known ? This kind of falsehood is generally successful for a time , because it is practised at first with timidity and caution ; but the prosperity of the liar is ...
... eyes and ears , and to whom all persons and affairs are thus intimately known ? This kind of falsehood is generally successful for a time , because it is practised at first with timidity and caution ; but the prosperity of the liar is ...
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... eyes from the mists of mortality , and give him power clearly to discern the gods that were at that time assisting the Trojans , that he might not be guilty of the impiety of wounding any of the celestial beings , Venus ex- cepted ...
... eyes from the mists of mortality , and give him power clearly to discern the gods that were at that time assisting the Trojans , that he might not be guilty of the impiety of wounding any of the celestial beings , Venus ex- cepted ...
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... eye down- ward , I was again thrown into extreme confusion , by seeing something hang from the fore - part of my chair , which I imagined to be a portion of my shirt ; though indeed it was no other than the corner of a napkin on which I ...
... eye down- ward , I was again thrown into extreme confusion , by seeing something hang from the fore - part of my chair , which I imagined to be a portion of my shirt ; though indeed it was no other than the corner of a napkin on which I ...
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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,...