The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 sider |
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Side 57
... present of it to M. Reaumur , to adorn his cabinet , but wanted to know how to put it to death without injuring its feathers . M. de Reaumur sent him an arrow fresh dipped in the poison : it was stuck into the wing of this large bird ...
... present of it to M. Reaumur , to adorn his cabinet , but wanted to know how to put it to death without injuring its feathers . M. de Reaumur sent him an arrow fresh dipped in the poison : it was stuck into the wing of this large bird ...
Side 73
... Present appearance and vulgar conceit ordinarily impose upon our fancies , disguising things with a deceitful varnish , and representing those that are vainest with the greatest advantage ; whilst the noblest objects being of a more ...
... Present appearance and vulgar conceit ordinarily impose upon our fancies , disguising things with a deceitful varnish , and representing those that are vainest with the greatest advantage ; whilst the noblest objects being of a more ...
Side 130
... about pleasure , on the right choice of which their happiness depends . Lys . I do not understand you . Euph . Do you grant that sense perceiveth only sensible things ? Lys . I do . Euph . Sense perceiveth only things present ? Lys . 130.
... about pleasure , on the right choice of which their happiness depends . Lys . I do not understand you . Euph . Do you grant that sense perceiveth only sensible things ? Lys . I do . Euph . Sense perceiveth only things present ? Lys . 130.
Side 131
... present , and rating them all according to their true value ? Crito . The Epicureans themselves allowed , that pleasure , which procures a greater pain or hinders a greater pleasure , should be regarded as a pain ; and that pain , which ...
... present , and rating them all according to their true value ? Crito . The Epicureans themselves allowed , that pleasure , which procures a greater pain or hinders a greater pleasure , should be regarded as a pain ; and that pain , which ...
Side 132
... present and sensible : we ought to make allowance in the valuation of each particular pleasure , for all the pains and evils , for all the disgust , remorse , and shame that attend it : we ought to regard both kind and quantity , the ...
... present and sensible : we ought to make allowance in the valuation of each particular pleasure , for all the pains and evils , for all the disgust , remorse , and shame that attend it : we ought to regard both kind and quantity , the ...
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Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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
Populære avsnitt
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 60 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 123 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Side 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...
Side 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...