The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... fortune , and with such a striking and important discovery , as cannot be read without astonishment and tears ; and which I am almost confident Aristotle would have preferred to the story of his admired Edipus , for the artificial ...
... fortune , and with such a striking and important discovery , as cannot be read without astonishment and tears ; and which I am almost confident Aristotle would have preferred to the story of his admired Edipus , for the artificial ...
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... fortune , rode his horse himself , distanced two of his competitors the first heat , and at last won the race by forcing his horse on a de- scent to full speed , at the hazard of his neck . His estate was thus repaired , and some ...
... fortune , rode his horse himself , distanced two of his competitors the first heat , and at last won the race by forcing his horse on a de- scent to full speed , at the hazard of his neck . His estate was thus repaired , and some ...
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... fortune of ten thousand pounds . Of this he very well knew that eight thousand was imaginary : but being a man of refined policy , and knowing how much honour is attached to riches , he resolved never to detect his own poverty ; but fur ...
... fortune of ten thousand pounds . Of this he very well knew that eight thousand was imaginary : but being a man of refined policy , and knowing how much honour is attached to riches , he resolved never to detect his own poverty ; but fur ...
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... fortune ; and he had sometimes the honour to have his secu- rity accepted when his friends were in distress . Elated with these associations , he soon learned to neglect his shop ; and having drawn his money out of the funds , to avoid ...
... fortune ; and he had sometimes the honour to have his secu- rity accepted when his friends were in distress . Elated with these associations , he soon learned to neglect his shop ; and having drawn his money out of the funds , to avoid ...
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... fortune . Soon after they were taken home , Charlotte was addressed by Captain Freeman , who , besides his commission in the guards , had a small paternal estate ; but as her friends hoped for a more advan- tageous match , the captain ...
... fortune . Soon after they were taken home , Charlotte was addressed by Captain Freeman , who , besides his commission in the guards , had a small paternal estate ; but as her friends hoped for a more advan- tageous match , the captain ...
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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,...