 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
 | James Boswell - 1827 - Počet stránok 622
...preserving us from vice, it is observed of those " who know not how to be idle and innocent," that " idered that a paper should consist of pieces of imagination ;" which Dr. Blair supposed would have been expressed in " The Itambler,"thus: "their very first step... | |
 | 1825 - Počet stránok 688
...the corruption of human nature. In his essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination he says, " there are very few who know how to be idle and innocent ; or...not criminal : every diversion they take is at the eipense of some one virtue or another, and their first step out of business is into vice or folly."... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - Počet stránok 284
...stands in the genitive case as the qualification only of a man. There are, indeed, but very few who knme how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures thai are not criminal ; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Počet stránok 584
...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 btep... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Počet stránok 592
...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 step... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - Počet stránok 378
...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 man should endeavor, therefore, to make the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1832 - Počet stránok 242
...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...their very first step out of business is into vice and foUy." This sentence is truly elegant, musical and correct"A man should endeavour therefore to... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 280
...and discovers in it a multitude ' of charms that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be...innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not crinjinal, every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - Počet stránok 654
...at the words immediately preceding; the uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures. ' There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be...first step out of business is into vice or folly.' Nothing can be more elegant, or more finely turned, than this sentence. It is neat, clear, and musical.... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - Počet stránok 298
...perfect model of correctness and of elegance. The sentence is from Addison's Spectator, Number 411. " There are, indeed, but very few, who know how " to..." they take, is at the expense of some one virtue F people; but, though they mean this, they do not say it ; and this part of their report is as false... | |
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