The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... falsehood ; if he violates the chas- tity of a wife , or seduces a daughter to prostitution ; we may still consider him in such circumstances as will incline us to fulfil the precept , and to regard him without the rancour of hatred or ...
... falsehood ; if he violates the chas- tity of a wife , or seduces a daughter to prostitution ; we may still consider him in such circumstances as will incline us to fulfil the precept , and to regard him without the rancour of hatred or ...
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... falsehoods ; he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The character of a liar is at once so hateful and contemptible that even of those who have lost their virtue it might be expected , that from the violation ...
... falsehoods ; he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The character of a liar is at once so hateful and contemptible that even of those who have lost their virtue it might be expected , that from the violation ...
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... falsehood to be equally de- tested by the good and bad : " The devils , " says Sir Thomas Brown , " do not tell lies to one another ; for truth is necessary to all societies : nor can the society of hell subsist without it . " It is ...
... falsehood to be equally de- tested by the good and bad : " The devils , " says Sir Thomas Brown , " do not tell lies to one another ; for truth is necessary to all societies : nor can the society of hell subsist without it . " It is ...
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... falsehoods which every man perceives hourly play- ing upon his ear , and , perhaps , most of those that are propagated with success . To the lie of com- merce and the lie of malice the motive is so appa- rent that they are seldom ...
... falsehoods which every man perceives hourly play- ing upon his ear , and , perhaps , most of those that are propagated with success . To the lie of com- merce and the lie of malice the motive is so appa- rent that they are seldom ...
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... falsehood , at greater hazard of de- tection and disgrace ; men marked out by some lucky planet for universal confidence and friend- ship , who have been consulted in every difficulty , intrusted with every secret , and summoned to ...
... falsehood , at greater hazard of de- tection and disgrace ; men marked out by some lucky planet for universal confidence and friend- ship , who have been consulted in every difficulty , intrusted with every secret , and summoned to ...
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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,...