 There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Strana 131podľa James Ferguson - 1819Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Hugh Blair - 1812 - Počet stránok 464
...immediately preceding ; the uncul~ tfoated parts of nature admini/ler to his pleajfures. There LE c T. fhere are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or. have a. reli/h of any pleafures that are not criminal 'j every diveqfion they take is at the expence offome... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1813 - Počet stránok 296
...is not a proper anteeedent, sinee if stands in the genitive ease as the qualifieation only of a man. "There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innoeent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not eriminal ; every diversion they take, is at... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - Počet stránok 582
...preceding ; the uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures. ' There are, indeed, but very fow who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish...and their very first step out of business is into rice of folly.' Nothing can be more elegant, or more finely turned, than this sentence. It is neat,... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - Počet stránok 214
...assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. There are' indeed, but very few who know how to be...and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that A man of a refined ima^inntion is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - Počet stránok 500
...preserving us from vice, it is observed of those " who know not how to be idle and innocent," that " their very first step out of business is into vice or folly ; " which Dr. Blair supposed would have been expressed in " The Rambler," thus : " their very first... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1817 - Počet stránok 516
...the words immediately preceding ; tlie uncultivated parts of nature administer to 7iis pleasures. ' There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be...have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal ; «very diversion they take, is at the expence of some one virtue or Mother, and their very first... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - Počet stránok 266
...not a proper antecedent, since it stands in the genitive case as the qualification only of a man. " There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be...first step out of business is into vice or folly." This sentence is truly elegant, musical, and correct. " A imn should endeavour therefore to make the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - Počet stránok 300
...is not a proper antecedent, since it stands in the genitive case as the qualification only of a man. There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be...pleasures that are not criminal ; every diversion they lake, is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business. is... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1819 - Počet stránok 198
...perfect model of correctness nnd of elegance. The' sentence is from A ddisoii's Spectator, Number 411. " There are, indeed, but very few, who know how *' to...they take, is at the expense of some one virtue " or other, and their very first step out of busi" ness is into vice or folly." Doctor Blair says : " Nothing... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - Počet stránok 538
...at the words immediately preceding; the uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures. p There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be...not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expence of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.... | |
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