The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... reason always appeared to be overborne by the importunity of appetite ; if the future was sacri- ficed to the present , and hope renounced only for possession ; there would not be much cause for wonder : but that man should draw absurd ...
... reason always appeared to be overborne by the importunity of appetite ; if the future was sacri- ficed to the present , and hope renounced only for possession ; there would not be much cause for wonder : but that man should draw absurd ...
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... reason to suspect his motive , he was seized and detained . In the coach were two ladies , and a little boy about five years old . The ladies were greatly alarmed when they heard that a person was taken who was supposed to have just ...
... reason to suspect his motive , he was seized and detained . In the coach were two ladies , and a little boy about five years old . The ladies were greatly alarmed when they heard that a person was taken who was supposed to have just ...
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... of rage , menaces , and execrations ; let Alexander , whom the lords of reason have extolled for ages , be no longer thought worthy of a triumph , As the acquisition of honour is frequently a mo- tive 6- 47 . ADVENTURER ,
... of rage , menaces , and execrations ; let Alexander , whom the lords of reason have extolled for ages , be no longer thought worthy of a triumph , As the acquisition of honour is frequently a mo- tive 6- 47 . ADVENTURER ,
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... reason , and as gross an absur- dity as any that has disgraced it . It is not , indeed , so much to 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 ...
... reason , and as gross an absur- dity as any that has disgraced it . It is not , indeed , so much to 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 ...
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... 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 conduct , though to love him is ...
... 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 conduct , though to love him is ...
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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,...