 You know what conversation I mean, for we lose the true advantage of our nature and constitution if we suffer the mind to come, as it were, to a stand. When the body, instead of acquiring new vigour, and tasting new pleasures, begins to decline, and is...  Essays and Miscellaneous Writings - Seite 100von Walter Nichols - 1826 - 179 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 500 Seiten
...You know what conversation I mean ; for we lose the true advantage of our nature and constitution, if we suffer the mind to come, as it were, to a stand....grown incapable of taking them, the mind may continue still to improve and indulge itself in new enjoyments. Every advance in know., ledge opens a new scene... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 498 Seiten
...what conversation I mean ; for we lose the true advantage of our nature and constitution, if we safFer the mind to come, as it were, to a stand. When the...grown incapable of taking them, the mind may continue still to improve and indulge itself in new enjoyments. Every advance in knowledge opens a new scene... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 504 Seiten
...You know what conversation I mean ; for we lose the true advantage of our nature and constitution, if we suffer the mind to come, as it were, to a stand....new pleasures, begins to decline, and is sated with pleasure?, or grown incapable of taking them, the mind may continue still to improve and indulge itself... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 522 Seiten
...we suffer the mind to come, as it were, to a stand. When the body, instead of acquiring new vigor, and tasting new pleasures, begins to decline, and...grown incapable of taking them, the mind may continue still to improve and indulge itself in new enjoyments. Every advance in knowledge opens a new scene... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.), Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1870 - 318 Seiten
...conversation. You know what conversation I mean, for we lose the true advantage of our nature and constitution if we suffer the mind to come, as it were, to a stand....grown incapable of taking them, the mind may continue still to improve and indulge itself in new enjoyments. Every advance in knowledge opens a new scene... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 Seiten
...we lose the true advantage of our nature and constitution, if, when the body is weakening with wear, we suffer the mind to come, as it were, to a stand. The mind should then, on the contrary, as it may, continue still to improve and indulge itself in new... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1923 - 312 Seiten
...conversation. You know what conversation I mean ; for we lose the advantage of our nature and constitution, if we suffer the mind to come, as it were, to a stand.' Thus having assured himself leisure, he knew that one necessary thing remained — to keep his mind... | |
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