The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Human Sports not such as can 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 ...
... Human Sports not such as can 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 ...
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... human frailty has commemorated sufferings which it could not sustain , a season in which the most zealous de- votion can only substitute a change of food for a total abstinence of forty days ; it cannot , surely , be incongruous to ...
... human frailty has commemorated sufferings which it could not sustain , a season in which the most zealous de- votion can only substitute a change of food for a total abstinence of forty days ; it cannot , surely , be incongruous to ...
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... human breast , when the proper objects of these passions occur , as the colour of material sub- stances is necessarily perceived by an eye before which they are exhibited ; yet it is in our power to change the passion , and to cause ...
... human breast , when the proper objects of these passions occur , as the colour of material sub- stances is necessarily perceived by an eye before which they are exhibited ; yet it is in our power to change the passion , and to cause ...
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... human beings . The wretch , who has thus deceived and injured us , should be considered as having ultimately intended , not evil to us , but good to himself . It should also be remembered that he has mistaken the means ; that he has for ...
... human beings . The wretch , who has thus deceived and injured us , should be considered as having ultimately intended , not evil to us , but good to himself . It should also be remembered that he has mistaken the means ; that he has for ...
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... human heart , and the various vanities and vices that lurk in it , cannot justly be denied . But a man who under- takes to transmit his thoughts on life and manners to posterity , with the hopes of entertaining and amending future ages ...
... human heart , and the various vanities and vices that lurk in it , cannot justly be denied . But a man who under- takes to transmit his thoughts on life and manners to posterity , with the hopes of entertaining and amending future ages ...
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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,...