 There is something positively agreeable to all men, to all at least whose nature is not most grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see any thing for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight, being...  Government situations handbook - Pągina 66per William Lyle - 1856 - 69 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Combe - 1803 - 280 pągines
...enjoyment of the individual is abundantly obvious. beings. " There is something," says an eloquent writer, "positively agreeable to all men — to all, at least,...and base— in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see anything for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - 68 pągines
...may thus be inferred, how great reason there is to learn the whole. It may easily be demonstrated, that there is an advantage in learning, both for the...grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see any thing for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being... | |
 | 1827 - 618 pągines
...of its beauty — the natural and easy connexion of the subjects. " It may easily be demonstrated, that there is an advantage in learning, both for the...and base, in gaining knowledg-e for its own sake. When you see any thing for the first time, you at once derivс some gratification from the sight being... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1828 - 248 pągines
...may thence be inferred, how great reason there is to learn the whole. It may easily be demonstrated, that there is an advantage in learning, both for the...grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see anything for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being... | |
 | 1829 - 522 pągines
...may thence be inferred, how great reason there is to learn the whole. It may easily be demonstrated, that there is an advantage in learning, both for the...grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see any thing for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight, being... | |
 | George Combe - 1829 - 326 pągines
...Faculties desire to know their dependences and relations. 'There is something,' says an eloquent writer, 'positively agreeable to all men, to all, at least,...grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see anything for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being... | |
 | 1831 - 336 pągines
...and it may thus be inferred, how eason there is to learn the whole. It may be easily demonstrated, that there is an advantage in learning, both for the...grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see any thing for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being... | |
 | 1831 - 336 pągines
...may thus be inferred, how great reason there is to learn the whole. It may be easily demonstrated, that there is an advantage in learning, both for the...grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see any thing for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1832 - 284 pągines
...DISCOURSE OF THE OBJECTS, ADVANTAGES, AND PLEASURES OF SCIENCE." 8vo. 1827. IT may easily be demonstrated, that there is an advantage in learning, both for the...grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see any thing for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being... | |
 | George Combe - 1835 - 442 pągines
...dependences and relations of all objects and beings. ' There is something,' says an eloquent writer, ' positively agreeable to all men, to all, at least,...grovelling and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. When you see any thing for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being... | |
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