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Page 128
... fear , the dependent by interest , and the friend by tenderness : those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure ; and , while unjust demands of praise continue to be made , there will always be some whom ...
... fear , the dependent by interest , and the friend by tenderness : those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure ; and , while unjust demands of praise continue to be made , there will always be some whom ...
Page 294
... fear , how- ever excessive in its degree , or unreasonable in its object , which will be allowed to characterize a coward . Fear is a passion which every man feels so frequently predominant in his own breast that he is unwilling to hear ...
... fear , how- ever excessive in its degree , or unreasonable in its object , which will be allowed to characterize a coward . Fear is a passion which every man feels so frequently predominant in his own breast that he is unwilling to hear ...
Page 336
... fear originally prohibits endeavours by infusing despair of success ; or the frequent failure of irresolute struggles , and the constant desire of avoiding la- bour , impress by degrees false terrors on the mind . But fear , whether ...
... fear originally prohibits endeavours by infusing despair of success ; or the frequent failure of irresolute struggles , and the constant desire of avoiding la- bour , impress by degrees false terrors on the mind . But fear , whether ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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