The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... punishes with a gibbet or a wheel , is in the highest degree astonishing ; and is such an instance of the weakness of our reason , and the fallibility of our judgment , as should incline VOL . II . B 1 us to accept with gratitude of ...
... punishes with a gibbet or a wheel , is in the highest degree astonishing ; and is such an instance of the weakness of our reason , and the fallibility of our judgment , as should incline VOL . II . B 1 us to accept with gratitude of ...
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... punish vice as to prevent misery , that I wish to see it always branded with infamy : for even the successes of vice terminate in the anguish of disappointment . To Alexander the fruit of all his conquests was tears ; and whoever goes ...
... punish vice as to prevent misery , that I wish to see it always branded with infamy : for even the successes of vice terminate in the anguish of disappointment . To Alexander the fruit of all his conquests was tears ; and whoever goes ...
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... punish- ment , excites hatred only in proportion as it appears to be malicious ; and pure malice has never been ... punishment that will last for ever . And how much better than this wretch is he , in whom the contemplation of his ...
... punish- ment , excites hatred only in proportion as it appears to be malicious ; and pure malice has never been ... punishment that will last for ever . And how much better than this wretch is he , in whom the contemplation of his ...
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... punished , an adequate temptation would not readily be found . Yet so it is , that in defiance of censure and con- tempt truth is frequently violated ; and scarcely the most vigilant and unremitted circumspection will secure him that ...
... punished , an adequate temptation would not readily be found . Yet so it is , that in defiance of censure and con- tempt truth is frequently violated ; and scarcely the most vigilant and unremitted circumspection will secure him that ...
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... punished . I am , indeed , far from desiring to increase in this kingdom the number of executions ; yet I cannot but ... punish- ment . T. No. 51. TUESDAY , MAY 1 , 1753 . Si. 24 50 . ADVENTURER .
... punished . I am , indeed , far from desiring to increase in this kingdom the number of executions ; yet I cannot but ... punish- ment . T. No. 51. TUESDAY , MAY 1 , 1753 . Si. 24 50 . ADVENTURER .
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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,...