The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... ness or vanity , which is common to all 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 ...
... ness or vanity , which is common to all 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 ...
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... ness , and the menaces of oppression should be far from those who profess themselves to be followers of Him who in his life went about doing good ; who instantly healed a wound that was given in his defence ; and who , when he was ...
... ness , and the menaces of oppression should be far from those who profess themselves to be followers of Him who in his life went about doing good ; who instantly healed a wound that was given in his defence ; and who , when he was ...
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... ness and precision . But the characters of La Bruyere deserve to be with spirit and propriety , without a total departure spoken of in far different terms . They are drawn from mature and resemblance , as sometimes is the in pretended ...
... ness and precision . But the characters of La Bruyere deserve to be with spirit and propriety , without a total departure spoken of in far different terms . They are drawn from mature and resemblance , as sometimes is the in pretended ...
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... ness and precision . But the characters of La Bruyere deserve to be spoken of in far different terms . They are drawn with spirit and propriety , without a total departure from nature and resemblance , as sometimes is the case in ...
... ness and precision . But the characters of La Bruyere deserve to be spoken of in far different terms . They are drawn with spirit and propriety , without a total departure from nature and resemblance , as sometimes is the case in ...
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... ness of falsehood , and whose pride is to deceive others without any gain or glory to themselves . Of this tribe it is the supreme pleasure to remark a lady in the playhouse or the park , and to publish , under the character of a man ...
... ness of falsehood , and whose pride is to deceive others without any gain or glory to themselves . Of this tribe it is the supreme pleasure to remark a lady in the playhouse or the park , and to publish , under the character of a man ...
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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,...