The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... 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 about to ...
... 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 about to ...
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... vice that disgraces human na- ture may be kept in countenance by applause and association : the corrupter of virgin innocence sees himself envied by the men , and at least not detested by the women : the drunkard may easily unite with ...
... vice that disgraces human na- ture may be kept in countenance by applause and association : the corrupter of virgin innocence sees himself envied by the men , and at least not detested by the women : the drunkard may easily unite with ...
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... vice , by the success of her own projects , had been betrayed into shame , per- plexity , and confusion . These events were indeed natural ; and therefore I poetically inferred , with all the confidence of demonstration , that the ...
... vice , by the success of her own projects , had been betrayed into shame , per- plexity , and confusion . These events were indeed natural ; and therefore I poetically inferred , with all the confidence of demonstration , that the ...
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... be violated without incurring either guilt or shame . But lying , however practised , does , like every other vice , ultimately disappoint its own purpose : " A lying tongue is but for a moment . 46 54 . ADVENTURER .
... be violated without incurring either guilt or shame . But lying , however practised , does , like every other vice , ultimately disappoint its own purpose : " A lying tongue is but for a moment . 46 54 . ADVENTURER .
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... vice . Such , indeed , is the blindness and vassalage of human reason that men are discouraged from virtue by the fear of shame , and incited to vice by the hope of honour . Honour , indeed , is always claimed in specious terms ; but ...
... vice . Such , indeed , is the blindness and vassalage of human reason that men are discouraged from virtue by the fear of shame , and incited to vice by the hope of honour . Honour , indeed , is always claimed in specious terms ; but ...
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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,...