The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... gratify pure Benevo- lence . Frolics unlawful because dangerous . A fatal one related . 69. Idle Hope . Hawkesworth . Johnson . 70. Sequel to the Story of Eugenio . Not accepting a Challenge , declared honourable by the Articles of War ...
... gratify pure Benevo- lence . Frolics unlawful because dangerous . A fatal one related . 69. Idle Hope . Hawkesworth . Johnson . 70. Sequel to the Story of Eugenio . Not accepting a Challenge , declared honourable by the Articles of War ...
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... gratify those vices in some , which in others he punishes with a gibbet or a wheel , is in the highest degree astonishing ; and is such an instance of the weakness of our reason , and the fallibility of our judgment , as should incline ...
... gratify those vices in some , which in others he punishes with a gibbet or a wheel , is in the highest degree astonishing ; and is such an instance of the weakness of our reason , and the fallibility of our judgment , as should incline ...
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... gratified , as far as the gratification of them was possible : and as the force of temptation is always supposed proportionably to extenuate guilt , Alexander's guilt was evidently greater than Bagshot's , because it cannot be pretended ...
... gratified , as far as the gratification of them was possible : and as the force of temptation is always supposed proportionably to extenuate guilt , Alexander's guilt was evidently greater than Bagshot's , because it cannot be pretended ...
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... gratify intemperate wishes will labour to as little purpose as he who should attempt to fill a sieve with water . I was accidentally led to pursue my subject in this train by the sight of an historical chart , in which the rise , the ...
... gratify intemperate wishes will labour to as little purpose as he who should attempt to fill a sieve with water . I was accidentally led to pursue my subject in this train by the sight of an historical chart , in which the rise , the ...
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... gratified , when scarce any other was felt ; or that , in compliance with the united solicitations of her friends and her lover , she suffered herself within a few weeks to become a lady and a wife . They continued in the country till ...
... gratified , when scarce any other was felt ; or that , in compliance with the united solicitations of her friends and her lover , she suffered herself within a few weeks to become a lady and a wife . They continued in the country till ...
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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,...