 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
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1868 - Počet stránok 344
...them. "There are few indeed," says Addison in the Spectator, " who know how to be idle and innocent : every diversion they take is at the expense of some...first step out of business is into vice or folly." The purest water left to stagnate grows putrid ; and the finest soil thrown into fallow soon throws... | |
 | William Rushton - 1869 - Počet stránok 352
...frequently occur in the use of pronouns. Take, for example, the following sentence from Addison : ' There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be...they take is at the expense of some one virtue or other, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.' — Spectator, No. 411. Of... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1870 - Počet stránok 230
...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...diversion " they take, is at the expense of some one yirture or other, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly." Doctor Blair says... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1870 - Počet stránok 454
...imagination. The same sort of confusion appears in the first sentence of the very next paragraph : — " There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of pleasures that are not criminal ; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1870 - Počet stránok 456
...imagination. The same sort of confusion appears in the first sentence of the very next paragraph : — " There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of pleasures that are not criminal ; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - Počet stránok 584
...in 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... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1876 - Počet stránok 128
...they had been for ever so long, and where they said that the natives ripped up their stomachs." 92. " There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be...they take is at the expense of some one virtue or other, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly." — Spectator. 93. " What... | |
 | William Francis Pringle Noble - 1876 - Počet stránok 628
...them. " There are few, indeed," says Addison in the Spectator, " who know how to be idle and innocent : every diversion they take is at the expense of some...first step out of business is into vice or folly." The purest water left to stagnate grows putrid, and the finest soil thrown into fallow soon throws... | |
 | John Nichol - 1879 - Počet stránok 186
...permitted to redeem his life by a pecuniary ransom, a custom which prevailed among our German ancestors." " There are indeed but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or to have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal : every diversion they take is at the expense... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1880 - Počet stránok 492
...imagination. The same sort of confusion appears in the first sentence of the very next paragraph : — "There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or... | |
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