 ... but labour would wear him out, and the purpose of it be defeated, if he had not intervals of pleasure ; and unless that pleasure be innocent, both he and society must suffer. Now what pleasures are more harmless, if they be nothing else, than those...  Strathallan - Seite 296von Alicia Lefanu - 1817Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1805 - 634 Seiten
...they be nothing else, than those afforded by pobte arts and polite literature ? love was fivennsbv the Author of our being, as the reward of virtue, and the solace of At length arrived the accomplishment of Sir William Jones's long protracted wishes ; in March 1783,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 Seiten
...are more harmless, if they be nothing else, than those afforded by polite arts and polite literature; love was given us by the Author of our being as the...that the wealthy alone can gather it with prudence. On the other hand, mere pleasure, to which the idle are not justly entitled, soon satiates, and leaves... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 566 Seiten
...more harmless, if they be nothing else, than those afforded by polite arts and polite literature ? Love was given us by the Author of our being as the...that the wealthy alone can gather it with prudence. On the other hand, mere pleasure, to which the idle are not justly entitled, soon satiates, and leaves... | |
 | 1806 - 540 Seiten
...mere harmlefs, if 'they be nothing elle, than thole afforded by polite arts and polite literature ? love was given us by the author of our being as the rewird of virtue, and the folace of care; but the bafe and fordid forms of arti/ifial, (which I oppole... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 452 Seiten
...more harmlefs, if they be nothing elfe, than thofe afforded by polite arts and polite literature ? Love was given us by the Author of our being as the reward of virtue, and the folace of care ; but the bafe and fordid forms of artificial, (which I oppofe to natural^ fociety in... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 470 Seiten
...more harmlefs, if they be "nothing elfe, than thofe afforded by polite arts and polite literature ? Love was given us by the Author of our being as the reward of virtue, and the folace of care ; but the bafe and fordid forms of artificial, (which I oppofe to natural,} fociety... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 Seiten
...more harmless, if they be nothing else, than those afforded by polite arts and polite literature p Love was given us by the Author of our being as the...reward of virtue, and the solace of care ; but the hase and sordid forms of artificial (which I oppose to natural) society in which, we live, have encircled... | |
 | 1821 - 360 Seiten
...more harmless, if they be nothing else, than those afforded by polite arts, and polite literature ? Love was given us by the Author of our being, as the...virtue, and the solace of care; but the base and sordid « The original is quoted by Mr. Jones :— Torquatus volo parvulus, Matris d gremio sua?, Porrigens... | |
 | 1830 - 606 Seiten
...more harmless, if they be nothing else, than those afforded by polite arts and polite literature ? Love was given us by the author of our being as the...that the wealthy alone can gather it with prudence. On the other hand, mere pleasure, to which the idle are not justly entitled, soon satiates, and leaves... | |
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