The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... tion of all our wishes was offered us to love a stranger as we love a child , we could not fulfil the condition , however we might desire the reward . But admitting this to be true , and that we can- not love an enemy as we love a ...
... tion of all our wishes was offered us to love a stranger as we love a child , we could not fulfil the condition , however we might desire the reward . But admitting this to be true , and that we can- not love an enemy as we love a ...
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... tion , with so much solidity and pleasantry united : he disdained to sacrifice truth to levity and licen- tiousness . Many of his characters are personal , and contain allusions which cannot now be under- stood . It is , indeed , the ...
... tion , with so much solidity and pleasantry united : he disdained to sacrifice truth to levity and licen- tiousness . Many of his characters are personal , and contain allusions which cannot now be under- stood . It is , indeed , the ...
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... tion , which is so powerfully felt by the truly wise and good , who can calmly sit down to give a cata- logue of his private vices , and publish his most secret infirmities , with the pretence of exhibiting a faithful picture of himself ...
... tion , which is so powerfully felt by the truly wise and good , who can calmly sit down to give a cata- logue of his private vices , and publish his most secret infirmities , with the pretence of exhibiting a faithful picture of himself ...
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... tion , with so much solidity and pleasantry united : he disdained to sacrifice truth to levity and licen- tiousness . Many of his characters are personal , and contain allusions which cannot now be under- stood . It is , indeed , the ...
... tion , with so much solidity and pleasantry united : he disdained to sacrifice truth to levity and licen- tiousness . Many of his characters are personal , and contain allusions which cannot now be under- stood . It is , indeed , the ...
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... to themselves ; even where the subject of conversa- tion could not have been expected to put the pas- sions in motion , or to have excited either hope or fear , or zeal or malignity , sufficient to induce 20 50 . ADVENTURER .
... to themselves ; even where the subject of conversa- tion could not have been expected to put the pas- sions in motion , or to have excited either hope or fear , or zeal or malignity , sufficient to induce 20 50 . ADVENTURER .
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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,...