 ... enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it; you do not gratify your palate or any other bodily appetite; and yet it is so pleasing, that you would give something out of your pocket to obtain it, and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake....  The American Library of Useful Knowledge - Page 1391831 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Combe - 1803 - 280 pages
...disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you do not gratify your palate or :my other bodily appetite ; and yet it is so pleasing that you would give something out of your pocket... | |
 | 1827 - 618 pages
...disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you...the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For what has just been referred to is in fact science, which in its most comprehensive sense only means... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - 68 pages
...disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you...the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For what has just been referred to is in fact Science, which in its most comprehensive sense only means... | |
 | 1827 - 608 pages
...winds up an eloquent sketch on the pleasure of knowledge, with this forcible argument, ad crumenam. " It is so pleasing, that you would give something out of your pocket to obtain it." This finishing stroke to a very glowing and highly wrought description, strikes me as inexpressibly... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1828 - 248 pages
...disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it; you...the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For what has just been spoken of is, in fact, Science, which in its most comprehensive sense only means... | |
 | George Combe - 1829 - 326 pages
...disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you...of the like nature, or rather it is the very same.' * This is a correct and forcible exposition of the pleasures attending the active exercise of our intellectual... | |
 | 1829 - 522 pages
...disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you...the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For what has just been spoken of is, in fact, Science, which in its most comprehensive sense only means... | |
 | 1831 - 336 pages
...disinterested nature, and has no "reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you...the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For what has just been referred to is in fact Science, which in its most comprehensive sense only means... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1832 - 284 pages
...animal, you find it agreeable to recollect having seen it formerly, and to think that you know something about it. If you see another instrument or animal,...the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For what has just been referred to is, in fact, Science, which in its most comprehensive sense only... | |
 | 1832 - 952 pages
...palate, or any other bodily appetite; and yet it I* so pleasing that you would give something out ot your pocket to obtain It, and would forego some bodily...enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from seien« I« exactly of the like nature, or rather it is the very ваше." This is a correct and forcible... | |
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