The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... happiness , yet he pro- duced much more dreadful and extensive evil to society in the attempt . Bagshot killed two men ; and I have related the murder and its consequences , with such particulars as usually rouse that sensibi- lity ...
... happiness , yet he pro- duced much more dreadful and extensive evil to society in the attempt . Bagshot killed two men ; and I have related the murder and its consequences , with such particulars as usually rouse that sensibi- lity ...
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... happiness are lost by indiscretion , suffers his resentment to take away the rest . Among friends , sallies of quick resentment are ex- tremely frequent . Friendship is a constant recipro- cation of benefits , to which the sacrifice of ...
... happiness are lost by indiscretion , suffers his resentment to take away the rest . Among friends , sallies of quick resentment are ex- tremely frequent . Friendship is a constant recipro- cation of benefits , to which the sacrifice of ...
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... Happiness , " says he , “ consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The obvious doctrine con- . tained in this reflection ...
... Happiness , " says he , “ consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The obvious doctrine con- . tained in this reflection ...
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... Happiness , " says he , " consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The obvious doctrine con- . tained in this reflection ...
... Happiness , " says he , " consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The obvious doctrine con- . tained in this reflection ...
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... happiness , during a series of external calamities that termi- nated in death ; and vice , by the success of her own projects , had been betrayed into shame , per- plexity , and confusion . These events were indeed natural ; and ...
... happiness , during a series of external calamities that termi- nated in death ; and vice , by the success of her own projects , had been betrayed into shame , per- plexity , and confusion . These events were indeed natural ; and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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,...