The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Folly of Human Wishes and Schemes to cor- rect the moral Government of the World . The History of Nouraddin and Amana . Hawkesworth . 73. The History of Nouraddin and Amana concluded . Hawkesworth . Johnson . 74. Apology for neglecting ...
... Folly of Human Wishes and Schemes to cor- rect the moral Government of the World . The History of Nouraddin and Amana . Hawkesworth . 73. The History of Nouraddin and Amana concluded . Hawkesworth . Johnson . 74. Apology for neglecting ...
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... Folly of false Pretences to Importance . A Journey in a Stage Coach . Johnson . 85. Study , Composition , and Converse equally necessary to intellectual Accomplishment . 86. The Life of Agamus , an old Debauchee . Johnson . Hawkesworth ...
... Folly of false Pretences to Importance . A Journey in a Stage Coach . Johnson . 85. Study , Composition , and Converse equally necessary to intellectual Accomplishment . 86. The Life of Agamus , an old Debauchee . Johnson . Hawkesworth ...
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... folly in the service of rapine and murder ; and that men should imagine they were deserving honour by the massacre of each other , merely to flatter ambition with a new title , is , perhaps , as inscrutable a mystery as any that has ...
... folly in the service of rapine and murder ; and that men should imagine they were deserving honour by the massacre of each other , merely to flatter ambition with a new title , is , perhaps , as inscrutable a mystery as any that has ...
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... folly and ingratitude , treachery and rebellion . By the imputation of these vices a child becomes the object of indignation and resentment : indignation and re- sentment in the breast , therefore , of the parent are necessarily excited ...
... folly and ingratitude , treachery and rebellion . By the imputation of these vices a child becomes the object of indignation and resentment : indignation and re- sentment in the breast , therefore , of the parent are necessarily excited ...
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... folly and a fault : each ought to reflect , that he is , at least in the opinion of the other , incurring the crimes that he imputes ; that the foundation of their enmity is no more than a mistake ; and that this mistake is the effect ...
... folly and a fault : each ought to reflect , that he is , at least in the opinion of the other , incurring the crimes that he imputes ; that the foundation of their enmity is no more than a mistake ; and that this mistake is the effect ...
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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,...