The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... passions were gratified , as far as the gratification of them was possible : and as the force of temptation is always supposed proportionably to extenuate guilt , Alexander's guilt was evidently greater than Bagshot's , because it ...
... passions were gratified , as far as the gratification of them was possible : and as the force of temptation is always supposed proportionably to extenuate guilt , Alexander's guilt was evidently greater than Bagshot's , because it ...
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... 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 conduct , though to love him is impossible . The Christian will be ...
... 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 conduct , though to love him is impossible . The Christian will be ...
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... 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 either love or hatred to be excited by placing the ...
... 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 either love or hatred to be excited by placing the ...
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... passion , give him food ; for who that sees a crimi- nal dragged to execution , for whatever crime , would refuse him a cup of cold water ? On the contrary , he whom God has forgiven must necessarily become amiable to man : to con ...
... passion , give him food ; for who that sees a crimi- nal dragged to execution , for whatever crime , would refuse him a cup of cold water ? On the contrary , he whom God has forgiven must necessarily become amiable to man : to con ...
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... passion , and de- paved even of her just and indisputable authority . As a Christian , and as a man , I despise , I detest sach debasing principles . Rochefoucault , to give a smartness and shortness to his sentences , frequently makes ...
... passion , and de- paved even of her just and indisputable authority . As a Christian , and as a man , I despise , I detest sach debasing principles . Rochefoucault , to give a smartness and shortness to his sentences , frequently makes ...
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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,...