The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Wishes and Schemes to cor- rect the moral Government of the World . The History of Nouraddin and Amana . Hawkesworth . 73. The History of Nouraddin and Amana concluded . Hawkesworth . Johnson . 74. Apology for neglecting officious ...
... Wishes and Schemes to cor- rect the moral Government of the World . The History of Nouraddin and Amana . Hawkesworth . 73. The History of Nouraddin and Amana concluded . Hawkesworth . Johnson . 74. Apology for neglecting officious ...
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... 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 gratify intemperate wishes will ...
... 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 gratify intemperate wishes will ...
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... 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 friend ; it is yet ...
... 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 friend ; it is yet ...
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... wish but to return without further disgrace into the quiet shade of obscurity . The ladies , however , would take no denial , and I was at length obliged to comply . " I was much pleased and surprised at the atten- tion with which my ...
... wish but to return without further disgrace into the quiet shade of obscurity . The ladies , however , would take no denial , and I was at length obliged to comply . " I was much pleased and surprised at the atten- tion with which my ...
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... wish but to be admired , nor any guide but the fashion , thought every thing beautiful in proportion as it was new , and considered his work as unfinish- ed , while any observer could suggest an addition ; some alteration was therefore ...
... wish but to be admired , nor any guide but the fashion , thought every thing beautiful in proportion as it was new , and considered his work as unfinish- ed , while any observer could suggest an addition ; some alteration was therefore ...
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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,...