Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of SensationsJoseph Booker, 1809 - 191 oldal |
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72. oldal
... law ; and this confest , Some are , and must be , greater than the rest ; More rich , more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier , shocks all common sense . EXERCISE of the mind is as requisite as that of the body to ...
... law ; and this confest , Some are , and must be , greater than the rest ; More rich , more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier , shocks all common sense . EXERCISE of the mind is as requisite as that of the body to ...
73. oldal
... law of Nature , which has united a degree of pleasure to whatever exercises the mind without fatiguing it . There have been men , and those called philosophers too , who have main- tained , that the exercise of the mind is no vey to us ...
... law of Nature , which has united a degree of pleasure to whatever exercises the mind without fatiguing it . There have been men , and those called philosophers too , who have main- tained , that the exercise of the mind is no vey to us ...
84. oldal
... laws . We may then form an idea of the impression which is made upon the brain , by that made upon the organs of the senses , which are as it were the branches of it . An object which is agreeable , exercises the fibres of the brain ...
... laws . We may then form an idea of the impression which is made upon the brain , by that made upon the organs of the senses , which are as it were the branches of it . An object which is agreeable , exercises the fibres of the brain ...
103. oldal
Young lady. ideas of perfection and felicity are the springs which move us to this requisite foresight , and consequently should em- ploy all our different abilities . Of the relation which the laws of sensation have to SENTIMENTS . 108.
Young lady. ideas of perfection and felicity are the springs which move us to this requisite foresight , and consequently should em- ploy all our different abilities . Of the relation which the laws of sensation have to SENTIMENTS . 108.
104. oldal
Young lady. Of the relation which the laws of sensation have to our preservation . Make fair deductions ; see to what they ... laws of sensation , I shall now notice some- thing rather singular , that is , the variety of 104 INTELLECTUAL.
Young lady. Of the relation which the laws of sensation have to our preservation . Make fair deductions ; see to what they ... laws of sensation , I shall now notice some- thing rather singular , that is , the variety of 104 INTELLECTUAL.
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abilities able agreeable sensations appears Author of Nature beauty become benevolence bloom body brain breast cause charms cheerful choly chords colour consonant Creator delight displeasing disposition Divine DUCHESS OF YORK endeavour enjoy envy Epicurus esteem eternal ev'ry exercise faculties fancy fection feel felicity fibres flatter friendship genius give happiness hatred heart Heav'n human idea idea of perfection imagination immolate impres impression laws of sensation likewise lively mankind manner ment mind misfor motions munificent Nature's neighbour neral ness objects opulence organs ourselves passions peculiar perfection plea pleasing sensation pleasure possess power of love praise preservation pression principal procure proportion racters reason requisite rill Royal Highness Royal Highness's sations satisfaction scene sciences secret self-love senses sensible sentiments shew shine sion soul springs sublimity superior tain tastes thing thought tion torpid true variety virtue virtuous person Whence comes wisdom
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124. oldal - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
155. oldal - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
76. oldal - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
134. oldal - Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
120. oldal - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
123. oldal - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
95. oldal - Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : E'en mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others...
99. oldal - Painful preeminence ! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring then these blessings to a strict account ; Make fair deductions ; see to what they 'mount...
31. oldal - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.