The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... elegance disdains the grossness of smoky luxury , by grinding the same materials into a powder that may at once gratify and impair the smell . Not only by these popular and modish trifles , but by a thousand unheeded and evanescent ...
... elegance disdains the grossness of smoky luxury , by grinding the same materials into a powder that may at once gratify and impair the smell . Not only by these popular and modish trifles , but by a thousand unheeded and evanescent ...
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... elegance or pleasure , which want of money hinders him from imitating or par- taking , comforts himself that the time of distress will soon be at an end ; and that every day brings him nearer to a state of happiness , though he knows it ...
... elegance or pleasure , which want of money hinders him from imitating or par- taking , comforts himself that the time of distress will soon be at an end ; and that every day brings him nearer to a state of happiness , though he knows it ...
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... elegance than in any ancient philosopher , and I wish I could not add than in any modern . Ulysses meets with a friendly reception in all the various nations to which he is driven ; who declare their inviolable obligations to protect ...
... elegance than in any ancient philosopher , and I wish I could not add than in any modern . Ulysses meets with a friendly reception in all the various nations to which he is driven ; who declare their inviolable obligations to protect ...
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... elegance , when her money will supply me with all that in others ? You , cousin , had an opportunity of being as happy as I am : the men , believe me , would not like you a bit the worse for being married ; on the contrary , you would ...
... elegance , when her money will supply me with all that in others ? You , cousin , had an opportunity of being as happy as I am : the men , believe me , would not like you a bit the worse for being married ; on the contrary , you would ...
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... elegance of his compliments soon prejudiced me in favour of his understanding . He was introduced by the captain to Amanda as his most intimate friend , and seemed desirous to give credit to his friend's judgment by making himself as ...
... elegance of his compliments soon prejudiced me in favour of his understanding . He was introduced by the captain to Amanda as his most intimate friend , and seemed desirous to give credit to his friend's judgment by making himself as ...
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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,...