The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... mankind : the character of both would then assume a very dif- ferent aspect , love would again be excited by the return of its object , and each would be impatient to exchange acknowledgments , and recover the feli- city which was so ...
... mankind : the character of both would then assume a very dif- ferent aspect , love would again be excited by the return of its object , and each would be impatient to exchange acknowledgments , and recover the feli- city which was so ...
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... mankind ; he can retire to no fra- ternity , where his crimes may stand in the place of virtues ; but is given up to the hisses of the multi- tude , without friend and without apologist . It is the peculiar condition of falsehood to be ...
... mankind ; he can retire to no fra- ternity , where his crimes may stand in the place of virtues ; but is given up to the hisses of the multi- tude , without friend and without apologist . It is the peculiar condition of falsehood to be ...
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... mankind , I resolved no longer to wait for solicitation , but stole early this evening from between gloomy sullenness and riotous merriment , to give you an account of part of my companions . One of the most eminent members of our club ...
... mankind , I resolved no longer to wait for solicitation , but stole early this evening from between gloomy sullenness and riotous merriment , to give you an account of part of my companions . One of the most eminent members of our club ...
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... mankind , might condescend to imitate the candour of Socrates ; and where they find incontestable proofs of superior genius , be content to think that there is justness in the connexion which they can- not trace , and cogency in the ...
... mankind , might condescend to imitate the candour of Socrates ; and where they find incontestable proofs of superior genius , be content to think that there is justness in the connexion which they can- not trace , and cogency in the ...
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... mankind shall appear from its having busied me to subvert it , and from the misery which I suffer in idleness , now my purpose is unhappily effected ; I hope they are not yet so obdurate in ill as to persist in rejecting it merely in ...
... mankind shall appear from its having busied me to subvert it , and from the misery which I suffer in idleness , now my purpose is unhappily effected ; I hope they are not yet so obdurate in ill as to persist in rejecting it merely in ...
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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,...