The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... natural defects , and exert our reason instead of indulging a passion . If our enemy hungers we may feed him , and if he thirsts we may give him drink ; this , if we could love him , would be our conduct ; and this may still be our ...
... natural defects , and exert our reason instead of indulging a passion . If our enemy hungers we may feed him , and if he thirsts we may give him drink ; this , if we could love him , would be our conduct ; and this may still be our ...
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... it is the only one of which the offender has been guilty , de- monstrate that they are without natural affection : and that they would have prostituted their offspring , if not to lust , yet to affections which are 10 48 . ADVENTURER .
... it is the only one of which the offender has been guilty , de- monstrate that they are without natural affection : and that they would have prostituted their offspring , if not to lust , yet to affections which are 10 48 . ADVENTURER .
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... ; and impartially to consider it is not only our duty but our interest . Thus may we love our enemies , and add a dig- nity to our nature of which pagan virtue had no conception . But if to love our enemies is the 12 48 . ADVENTURER .
... ; and impartially to consider it is not only our duty but our interest . Thus may we love our enemies , and add a dig- nity to our nature of which pagan virtue had no conception . But if to love our enemies is the 12 48 . ADVENTURER .
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... one subject : as in the character Menaicas , the absent man , which , though ap- mued by one of my predecessors , is surely absurd false to nature . This author appears to be a Case warm admirer of virtue , and a steady promoter of.
... one subject : as in the character Menaicas , the absent man , which , though ap- mued by one of my predecessors , is surely absurd false to nature . This author appears to be a Case warm admirer of virtue , and a steady promoter of.
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... nature , and are not to be comprehended in so small a compass ; such objects do not admit of being drawn in miniature with ac- curacy and distinctness . To the present prevailing passion for French moralists and French critics , may be ...
... nature , and are not to be comprehended in so small a compass ; such objects do not admit of being drawn in miniature with ac- curacy and distinctness . To the present prevailing passion for French moralists and French critics , may be ...
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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,...