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The Scots Magazine, Volume 14

English literature - 1752 - 674 pages
...1 wifh that others may efcape perdition ; and am therefore lolicitous to warn them of the path tlut leads to the precipice from which I have fallen. I am the only child of a wealthy farmer : wlio as he was himfirlf illiterate, w»» U i'-t 6 1 0 The hiß er у the more zealous to make his...
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The Adventurer: ...

1788 - 326 pages
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The British Essayists: The Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 430 pages
...calamity: I wish that others may escape perdition ; and am, therefore, solicitous to warn them of the patli that leads to the precipice from which I have fallen....success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to de'ny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending...
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The British Essayists;: Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...rather to increase than mitigate anguish, as it recollects every circumstance of distress and imbitters the memory of past sufferings by the anticipation...himself illiterate, was the more zealous to make his 8on a scholar ; imagining that there was in the knowledge of Greek and Latin, some secret charm of...
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The British Essayists;: Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...that others may escape perdition ; and am, therefore, solicitous to warn them of the path that lead* to the precipice from which I have fallen. I am the...zealous to make his son a scholar ; imagining that there wai in the knowledge of Greek and Latin, some secret charm of perpetual influence, which as I passed...
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The Adventurer, Volume 1

English essays - 1823 - 304 pages
...rather to increase than mitigate anguish, as it recollects every circumstance of distress, and imbitters the memory of past sufferings by the anticipation...success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...rather to increase than mitigate anguish, as it recollects every circumstance of distress, and imbitters the memory of past sufferings by the anticipation...success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 19-20

British essayists - 1823 - 686 pages
...of future : yet, like weeping, it is an indulgence of that which it is pain to suppress, and soothes with the hope of pity the wretch who despairs of comfort....success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 650 pages
...solace of complaint and the hope of pity, are not the only motives that have induced me to communieate the series of events by which I have been led on in...success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1856 - 338 pages
...future ; yet, like weeping, it is an indulgence of that which it is pain to suppress, and soothes, with the hope of pity, the wretch who despairs of...success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending...
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