Select British Classics, Volum 21J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... evil ..... What is good but pleasure ? What is evil but pain ? Reason and nature direct me to chuse the first , and avoid the last . I sought for happiness in what is called virtue , but I found it not : shail I not try the other ...
... evil ..... What is good but pleasure ? What is evil but pain ? Reason and nature direct me to chuse the first , and avoid the last . I sought for happiness in what is called virtue , but I found it not : shail I not try the other ...
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... writings , therefore , in which reasoning is con- cerned , is not , perhaps , so great an evil to mankind , as of those which describe characters and facts . VOL . III . L To be deprived of the last books of Livy , THE ADVENTURER . 115.
... writings , therefore , in which reasoning is con- cerned , is not , perhaps , so great an evil to mankind , as of those which describe characters and facts . VOL . III . L To be deprived of the last books of Livy , THE ADVENTURER . 115.
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... evil , which succeed- ing generations could expect only from natural causes , Soliman , a mighty prince , reigned over a thousand provinces in the distant regions of the East . It is recorded of Soliman , that he had no favourite ; but ...
... evil , which succeed- ing generations could expect only from natural causes , Soliman , a mighty prince , reigned over a thousand provinces in the distant regions of the East . It is recorded of Soliman , that he had no favourite ; but ...
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LETTERS from six characters | 71 |
The folly of human wishes and schemes to cor rect the moral government of the world history of Nourraddin and Amana | 72 |
The history of Nourraddin and Amana concluded | 73 |
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acquainted ADVENTURER Alcinous Almerine altar Amana Amphinomus Anticlea appeared Aristotle beauty behold Bozaldab breast Caliban caliph Catiline Catullus character considered countenance death desire despair despised Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect Elfarina endeavour epic poetry equal Euripides evil excellence eyes fable father favour felicity fortune genius gratify happiness heart hero Homer honour hope hour human Iliad images imagination impatience kind labour lady learned Longinus look mankind manner Mantua marriage Menander ment mind misery moral Nardic nature ness never Nouraddin Nourassin object Odyssey opinion Osmin palace passion perceived perpetually person pleasure poem poet present prince produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason SATURDAY scarcely sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah shew smile Soliman soul spirit suffered Sycorax tears tender thee Theocritus thou thought tion truth TUESDAY ulmo Ulysses Virgil virtue wish wretched writers Yamodin δε