Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of SensationsJoseph Booker, 1809 - 191 páginas |
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... imagination so inte- resting is produced by our own fancy , out of the various materials furnished by education , constitution , society , and our own reflections . We in general think it to consist of a collection of qualities fo ...
... imagination so inte- resting is produced by our own fancy , out of the various materials furnished by education , constitution , society , and our own reflections . We in general think it to consist of a collection of qualities fo ...
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... imagination , forms an object truly delight- ful , and which , though of short continu- ance , appears more valuable than a long series of sensations , which , though pleas- ing , have an alloy of bitterness and chagrin ' Tis education ...
... imagination , forms an object truly delight- ful , and which , though of short continu- ance , appears more valuable than a long series of sensations , which , though pleas- ing , have an alloy of bitterness and chagrin ' Tis education ...
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... those of the heart and imagination , the beauty of the body , mind , and soul , and all that change of pleasing objects , which glitter so conspicuously throughout INTELLECTUAL Of the modifications of the brain, which ...
... those of the heart and imagination , the beauty of the body , mind , and soul , and all that change of pleasing objects , which glitter so conspicuously throughout INTELLECTUAL Of the modifications of the brain, which ...
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... - mirably distinguished the beauty of the body , the imagination , and the soul , has also diversified their motions , those of the ideas being more consonant than those of the body ; on the other hand , they are 118 INTELLECTUAL.
... - mirably distinguished the beauty of the body , the imagination , and the soul , has also diversified their motions , those of the ideas being more consonant than those of the body ; on the other hand , they are 118 INTELLECTUAL.
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... imagination , or heart , as well as those which accompany a tempe rate exercise , appear to be always before us . They fill up life , without being hurt- ful to health . It is not the same with that pleasure which is annexed to nou ...
... imagination , or heart , as well as those which accompany a tempe rate exercise , appear to be always before us . They fill up life , without being hurt- ful to health . It is not the same with that pleasure which is annexed to nou ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 124 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Página 155 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Página 76 - 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.
Página 134 - 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.
Página 120 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Página 123 - 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.
Página 95 - 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...
Página 99 - 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...
Página 31 - 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.