 | 1803 - Počet stránok 376
...strangeness of its appearance: itserves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | 1803 - Počet stránok 436
...strangeness of its appearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...on a monster, and makes even the imperfections of na1ure please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to... | |
 | 1804 - Počet stránok 412
...strangeness of its appearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes oft from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called ofl'to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - Počet stránok 578
...strangeness of its appearance : it serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something; new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - Počet stránok 406
...strangeness of its ap" pearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes " off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual " and ordinary entertainments. The Style in these sentences flows in an easy and agreeable manner. A severe critic might point out... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - Počet stránok 344
...strangeness of its appearance. It serves ns for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...that bestows charms on- a monster, and makes even the imper. fections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - Počet stránok 424
...fora kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual ami ordinary entertainments. It is this that bestows charms...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - Počet stránok 416
...strangeness of its appearance ; it serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - Počet stránok 342
...strangeness of its appearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary entertainments. It is this that;bestows charms on a monster, and makes even the imperfections of nature please us. It is this... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - Počet stránok 366
...strangeness of its appearance ; it serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes °ff from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
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... whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human life, and to divert our minds, for a while, with the strangeness of its appearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in... 
