| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...also procureth delight, by gratifying curiosity with its rareness, as semblance of difficulty : (as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ;...complaisance ; and by seasoning matters, otherwise distateful or insipid, with an unusual and thence grateful tang.". elined upon their chairs, with their... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...It also procureth delight, by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ; as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ;...spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit ia way of emulation or complaisance ; and by seasoning matters, otherwise distasteful or insipid, with... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...also procureth delight, by gratifying curiosity with its- rareness or semblance of difficulty ; as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ;...; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoicing to such dispositions of spirit in way of emulation or complaisance ; and by seasoning matters,... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 páginas
...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, ^ut their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure ; by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts... | |
| 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 páginas
...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 abstraseness, are beheld with pleasure ;) by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ;... | |
| 1821 - 400 páginas
...pro» cureth delight, by gratifying curiosity, with its 'rajfenessj or semblance of difficulty: (as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their, usej but their abstruseness, are, beheld with pleasure:) by diverting the mind from its road of serious... | |
| James Boaden - 1825 - 646 páginas
...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...spirit in way of emulation or complaisance ; and by sea" soning matters, otherwise distasteful or insipid, with an " unusual and thence grateful tang."... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ; as monsters, not for their M auty, but 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... | |
| 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... | |
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