too-pleasing

Updated: July 28, 2025

This, and the thoughts of the many new scenes and adventures which he was likely to encounter, whereby he might have an opportunity of making his name as famous in America as it was already in Europe, often filled his mind with too-pleasing reflections to regret his fate, though he could have liked to have performed the voyage under more agreeable circumstances; whenever the thought of being cruelly separated from his beloved wife and daughters glanced on his mind, the husband and father unmanned the hero, and melted him into tenderness and fear; the reflection too of the damage his subjects might sustain by his absence, and the disorder the whole community would be put in by it, filled him with many disquietudes.

Unknown - The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew: King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the: Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that: Extraordinary Man