The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... say- ing , that they seem to be surperficially acquainted with a multitude of subjects , but to go to the bottom of very few . This appears in criticism and polite learning , as well as in the abstruser sciences : by the diffusion of ...
... say- ing , that they seem to be surperficially acquainted with a multitude of subjects , but to go to the bottom of very few . This appears in criticism and polite learning , as well as in the abstruser sciences : by the diffusion of ...
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... says he , “ consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The obvious doctrine con- . tained in this reflection is the great ...
... says he , “ consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The obvious doctrine con- . tained in this reflection is the great ...
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... says he , " consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The obvious doctrine con- . tained in this reflection is the great ...
... says he , " consists in the taste , and not in the things : and it is by enjoying what a man loves that he becomes happy ; not by having what others think desirable . " The obvious doctrine con- . tained in this reflection is the great ...
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... says Sir Thomas Brown , " do not tell lies to one another ; for truth is necessary to all societies : nor can the society of hell subsist without it . " It is natural to expect that a crime thus generally detested should be generally ...
... says Sir Thomas Brown , " do not tell lies to one another ; for truth is necessary to all societies : nor can the society of hell subsist without it . " It is natural to expect that a crime thus generally detested should be generally ...
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... say , ' I shall find thee , ' but , far more forcibly and emphatically thy right hand shall hold me . ' With what majesty and magnificence is the Creator of the world , before whom the whole universe is repre- sented as nothing , nay ...
... say , ' I shall find thee , ' but , far more forcibly and emphatically thy right hand shall hold me . ' With what majesty and magnificence is the Creator of the world , before whom the whole universe is repre- sented as nothing , nay ...
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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,...