The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... wretch , who has thus deceived and injured us , should be considered as having ultimately intended , not evil to us , but good to himself . It should also be remembered that he has mistaken the means ; that he has for- feited the ...
... wretch , who has thus deceived and injured us , should be considered as having ultimately intended , not evil to us , but good to himself . It should also be remembered that he has mistaken the means ; that he has for- feited the ...
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... wretch that often has deceived , Though truth he speaks , is ne'er believed . PRÆD . WHEN Aristotle was once asked , what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods ; he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The ...
... wretch that often has deceived , Though truth he speaks , is ne'er believed . PRÆD . WHEN Aristotle was once asked , what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods ; he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The ...
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... wretched by keeping the company perpetually on the brink of laughter . " In the action of my play , virtue had been sus- tained by her own dignity , and exulted in the en- joyment of intellectual and independent happiness , during a ...
... wretched by keeping the company perpetually on the brink of laughter . " In the action of my play , virtue had been sus- tained by her own dignity , and exulted in the en- joyment of intellectual and independent happiness , during a ...
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... wretched than myself . The next morning , when I reflected coolly upon these events , I would willingly have reconciled my experience with my principles , even at the expense of my morals . I would have supposed that my desire of ...
... wretched than myself . The next morning , when I reflected coolly upon these events , I would willingly have reconciled my experience with my principles , even at the expense of my morals . I would have supposed that my desire of ...
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... wretched of all men ; but I do not upbraid you as the cause : would to God that I were not more guilty than you ! We are the mar- tyrs of dissimulation . By dissimulation dear Cap- tain Freeman was induced to waste those hours with you ...
... wretched of all men ; but I do not upbraid you as the cause : would to God that I were not more guilty than you ! We are the mar- tyrs of dissimulation . By dissimulation dear Cap- tain Freeman was induced to waste those hours with you ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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,...