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" It also procureth delight, by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ; (as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure ;) by diverting... "
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ... - Página 106
por Sydney Smith - 1856 - 391 páginas
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure ; by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoicing to such dispositions of spirit in way of emulation or...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure ; by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit ia way of emulation or...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure : ) by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit in way of emulation or...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure :) by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit in way of emulation or complaisance;...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 páginas
...rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for thoir use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure:) by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit, by provoking to such dispositions of spirit in way of emulation or complaisance...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 1

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 páginas
...delight, as it gratifies curiosity " with a singular effect, and with a semblance of " difficulty, — by diverting the mind from its road of " serious thoughts, — by instilling airiness of spirit, — " and by seasoning what is insipid with a new, and " grateful relish." * A...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 páginas
...rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use but their abstraseness, are beheld with pleasure ;) by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit, in way of emulation or...
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The Christian Journal, and Literary Register, Volume 5

1821 - 400 páginas
...rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their, usej but their abstruseness, are, beheld with pleasure:) by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts; by instilling gaiety and ajciuess of spirit ; by provoking to such, dispositions of spirit in a way of. emulation...
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Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq: Including a ..., Volume 1

James Boaden - 1825 - 650 páginas
...gar : it procureth delight by gratifying curiosity with its " rareness or semblance of difficulty : by diverting the mind " from its road of serious thoughts : by instilling gayety and "airiness of spirit; by provoking to such dispositions of " spirit in way of emulation or complaisance ; and by sca'•soning...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abtruseness, are beheld with pleasure ; by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit in the way of emulation...
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