The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... favour of Bagshot . Bagshot , when he had lost his last shilling , had lost the power of gratifying every appetite , whether criminal or innocent ; and the recovery of this power was the object of his expedition . Alexander , when he ...
... favour of Bagshot . Bagshot , when he had lost his last shilling , had lost the power of gratifying every appetite , whether criminal or innocent ; and the recovery of this power was the object of his expedition . Alexander , when he ...
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... favour is better than life , by the same conduct which forfeited ours ; and that to whatever view he sacrificed our tempo- ral interest , to that also he sacrificed his own hope of immortality ; that he is now seeking felicity which he ...
... favour is better than life , by the same conduct which forfeited ours ; and that to whatever view he sacrificed our tempo- ral interest , to that also he sacrificed his own hope of immortality ; that he is now seeking felicity which he ...
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... favour of their courage , their sagacity , or their activity , their familiarity with the learned , or their reception among the great ; they are always bribed by the present pleasure of seeing themselves superior to those that surround ...
... favour of their courage , their sagacity , or their activity , their familiarity with the learned , or their reception among the great ; they are always bribed by the present pleasure of seeing themselves superior to those that surround ...
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... favoured me with a visit , and when I went abroad I always put it into my pocket . Thus it became known to a circle ... favour me with a message , by which I was in- vited to breakfast at nine the next morning , and ac- quainted that a ...
... favoured me with a visit , and when I went abroad I always put it into my pocket . Thus it became known to a circle ... favour me with a message , by which I was in- vited to breakfast at nine the next morning , and ac- quainted that a ...
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... favour I had acknowledged was not yet come down : this mis- take increased my confusion : for , as I could not again repeat the same words , I reflected that I should be at last unprepared for the occasion on which they were to have ...
... favour I had acknowledged was not yet come down : this mis- take increased my confusion : for , as I could not again repeat the same words , I reflected that I should be at last unprepared for the occasion on which they were to have ...
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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,...