The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... persons who behaved better ; and as a tribute due to the merit of the dead , and as a token of his esteem for the living ... person was taken who was supposed to have just committed a robbery and a murder ; they asked many questions with ...
... persons who behaved better ; and as a tribute due to the merit of the dead , and as a token of his esteem for the living ... person was taken who was supposed to have just committed a robbery and a murder ; they asked many questions with ...
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... person he had insulted , and whose son he had stabbed to the heart ? Alex- ander did not ravish or massacre the women whom he found in the tent of Darius : neither did honest Bagshot kill the gentleman whom he had plundered , when he ...
... person he had insulted , and whose son he had stabbed to the heart ? Alex- ander did not ravish or massacre the women whom he found in the tent of Darius : neither did honest Bagshot kill the gentleman whom he had plundered , when he ...
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... persons and affairs are thus intimately known ? This kind of falsehood is generally successful for a time , because it ... person and her dress . From this artifice , however , no other effect can be expected than perturbations which the ...
... persons and affairs are thus intimately known ? This kind of falsehood is generally successful for a time , because it ... person and her dress . From this artifice , however , no other effect can be expected than perturbations which the ...
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... person than the golden wedge of Ophir . ' " " What seems to be particularly excellent in these writers is their selection of such adjuncts and cir- cumstances upon each subject as are best calculated to strike the imagination and ...
... person than the golden wedge of Ophir . ' " " What seems to be particularly excellent in these writers is their selection of such adjuncts and cir- cumstances upon each subject as are best calculated to strike the imagination and ...
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... persons who were so much my superiors , struck me with awe : my powers of recol- lection were suspended , and I resolved to express my sentiments only by the lowness of my bow and the distance of my behaviour : I therefore hastily ...
... persons who were so much my superiors , struck me with awe : my powers of recol- lection were suspended , and I resolved to express my sentiments only by the lowness of my bow and the distance of my behaviour : I therefore hastily ...
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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,...