Die Discourse der Mahlern: 1721-1722Theodor Vetter J. Huber, 1891 - 137 pages |
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1721 der Censur Affecte Albrecht Dürer Autoritet Begierden bemercken Beschreibung Bey Joseph Lindinner beyde biß bloß Bodmer Breitinger Büchern Canik Caractere Censur übergeben Chr dasjenige dieſe Discours Diſcourſe Diskurs einander Emulation ersten Exempel feqq fich fiehet find findet Freude Freundschafft Freyheit Furcht Fuß Gedancken Gedichte gelehrt gemachet Gemüthe Geschäffte geschickt Gesellschafft gewiß giebet gleich Glück Glückseligkeit groffen groß grösten guten Herze Imagination iſt Kenntniß Kopff Kräffte lachen laſſen läßt Leben lebhafft Leute lezten machen machet Machine Mahler der Sitten Manier Mann Materie MDCCXXI Meditiren Menschen muß müſſen Nahmen Narren Natur nothwendig Nußen Objecte offt Passion Pedanten Person Phidias Poeten Qualiteten Raillerie reden Sachen sagen Satyre Schluß Schöpffers schreiben Schrifften sehen ſein ſeine ſelbſt seye seyn ſich ſie ſind Societet Spectator Stärcke Temperament Theil Thiere thun Traurigkeit Tugend unsere urtheilen Vatter Vernunfft Verstand viel Vortheil weiß Welt wenig Werck werdet wieder Wissenschafft Wort-Spiele Worte zumachen Zürich Zuschauer zwey
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Page 4 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 8 - Mais l'homme , sans arrêt dans sa course insensée , Voltige incessamment de pensée en pensée : Son cœur, toujours flottant entre mille embarras, Ne sait ni ce qu'il veut ni ce qu'il ne veut pas.
Page 4 - Priami cantabo et nobile bellum. ' quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu ? parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. quanto rectius hic qui nil molitur inepte : 140 ' die mihi, Musa, virum, captae post tempora Troiae qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes.
Page 12 - If the products of nature rise in value according as they more or less resemble those of art, we may be sure that artificial works receive a greater advantage from their resemblance of such as are natural; because here the similitude is not only pleasant, but the pattern more perfect.
Page 9 - The natural disposition to any particular art, science, profession, or trade, is very much to be consulted in the care of youth, and studied by men for their own conduct when they form to themselves any scheme of life. It is wonderfully hard indeed for a man to judge of his own capacity impartially. That may look great to me which may appear little to another; and I may be carried by fondness towards myself so...
Page 81 - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
Page 6 - A definition, says he, is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known. He therefore accuses those of great negligence who discourse of moral things with the least obscurity in the terms they make use of, since upon the forementioned ground he does not s,cruple to say, that...
Page 9 - We should likewise be very apprehensive of those actions which proceed from natural constitution, favourite passions, particular education, or whatever promotes our worldly interest or advantage. In these and the like cases, a man's judgment is easily perverted, and a wrong bias hung upon his mind. These are the inlets of prejudice, the unguarded avenues of the mind, by which a thousand...
Page 12 - IF we consider the works of nature and art, as they are qualified to entertain the imagination, we shall find the last very defective, in comparison of the former; for though they may sometimes appear as beautiful or strange, they can have nothing in them of that vastness and immensity, which afford so great an entertainment to the mind of the beholder.
Page 5 - A likeness of inclinations in every particular is so far from being requisite to form a benevolence in two minds towards each other, as it is generally imagined, that I believe we shall find some of the firmest friendships to have been contracted between persons of different humours...