The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 páginas |
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Basil Montagu. PAGE . 17. Note upon some of our Pleasures . 128 • Pleasures of Sense . 129 Pleasures of Benevolence . 146 Pleasures of Malevolence . 150 Pleasures of Taste . 152 Query J. Is the Love of knowledge a Motive for CONTENTS . XV.
Basil Montagu. PAGE . 17. Note upon some of our Pleasures . 128 • Pleasures of Sense . 129 Pleasures of Benevolence . 146 Pleasures of Malevolence . 150 Pleasures of Taste . 152 Query J. Is the Love of knowledge a Motive for CONTENTS . XV.
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... taste for mechanics was deter- mined . His talents displayed themselves , and the same genius that enabled him to make a clock in wood , showed him the possibility of forming a fluting automatona . 2. About the year 1666 , in the 24th ...
... taste for mechanics was deter- mined . His talents displayed themselves , and the same genius that enabled him to make a clock in wood , showed him the possibility of forming a fluting automatona . 2. About the year 1666 , in the 24th ...
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... taste of that paradise from which they sprung . Like the wise husbandman who , tak- ing the rough grain which carries in its heart the bread to sustain life , doth trample under foot the gay and idle flowers which many times destroy it ...
... taste of that paradise from which they sprung . Like the wise husbandman who , tak- ing the rough grain which carries in its heart the bread to sustain life , doth trample under foot the gay and idle flowers which many times destroy it ...
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... taste . In judging of the value of different objects men seem much to differ : in the mode of attaining an object conceived to be desirable men seem more to agree . In Bacon's tract on the Advancement of Fortune , he says , " The first ...
... taste . In judging of the value of different objects men seem much to differ : in the mode of attaining an object conceived to be desirable men seem more to agree . In Bacon's tract on the Advancement of Fortune , he says , " The first ...
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... of benevolence , of malevo- lence , and of taste , is published with the hope that may induce some future inquirers to consider , it whether our happiness does not mainly depend upon a due 128 Note upon some of our Pleasures •
... of benevolence , of malevo- lence , and of taste , is published with the hope that may induce some future inquirers to consider , it whether our happiness does not mainly depend upon a due 128 Note upon some of our Pleasures •
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abraham Tucker acquisition of know allure appears attended beauty behold bienveillance bodies cause child Cicero conceive creatures d'une delight Demosthenes desire disposition doth effect endeavours Epictetus Euph Euripides evil excite feare greatest hand happiness hath head heart human ignorance Isocrates jentlemen jentlenesse Jerom judgement kepe kind labours Lady Jane Grey learning learninge ledge les Plaisirs light living Lord Bacon love of excellence love of knowledge Lucretius maner master men's ment mind misanthropi moral motives nature never noble object observed pain Paresa passed passion peines perfect peut Plaisirs Plato Pleasures of Sense pleasures of taste powers praise Pythagoras reason says schole scholemaster sensible shews Sir Richard Sackville Socrates soul spaniel slept speak spirit surelie sweet taulke temn things thought tions Tobit tract trewe true truth ture unto vanity virtue vulgar wisdom wise witte yonge young youth
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Página 7 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Página 4 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 139 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 60 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 121 - Sudden glory," is the passion which maketh those "grimaces" called "laughter"; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them ; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
Página 1 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 137 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Página 123 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Página 96 - Orpheus theatre; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
Página 60 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A...