The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... immediately presented a pis- tol , and at the same time a servant rode up armed with a blunderbuss . The robber , perceiving that he should be vigorously opposed , turned off from the chaise , and discharged a pistol at the servant ...
... immediately presented a pis- tol , and at the same time a servant rode up armed with a blunderbuss . The robber , perceiving that he should be vigorously opposed , turned off from the chaise , and discharged a pistol at the servant ...
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... immediately ordered the mount of his garden to be excavated ; and having laid out a large sum in shells and minerals , was busy in regu- lating the disposition of the colours and lustres , when two gentlemen , who had asked permission ...
... immediately ordered the mount of his garden to be excavated ; and having laid out a large sum in shells and minerals , was busy in regu- lating the disposition of the colours and lustres , when two gentlemen , who had asked permission ...
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... immediately made propo- sals of marriage to Maria , with whom he became acquainted during his visits to her friend , and soon after married her . The friendship of the two young ladies seemed to be rather increased than diminished by ...
... immediately made propo- sals of marriage to Maria , with whom he became acquainted during his visits to her friend , and soon after married her . The friendship of the two young ladies seemed to be rather increased than diminished by ...
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... immediately sent out for a chair : a chair , as it happened , could not be procured ; but a hackney coach being brought in its stead , the cap- tain insisted upon waiting on her ladyship home . This she refused with some emotion ; it is ...
... immediately sent out for a chair : a chair , as it happened , could not be procured ; but a hackney coach being brought in its stead , the cap- tain insisted upon waiting on her ladyship home . This she refused with some emotion ; it is ...
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... immediately put in execution ; but Lady Forrest found her cousin indisposed with a cold . When she had communicated the design of this early visit , Miss Meadows entreated her to give up her walk in the park , to stay till the family ...
... immediately put in execution ; but Lady Forrest found her cousin indisposed with a cold . When she had communicated the design of this early visit , Miss Meadows entreated her to give up her walk in the park , to stay till the family ...
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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,...