 ... proceeds not from their disrelishing what they possess; and the pleasure of a new enjoyment is not with them measured by its novelty (which is a thing merely foreign and accidental), but by its real intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand...  Death; with other poems - Pàgina 236per Robert Montgomery - 1834Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1810 - 566 pàgines
...value. After an acquaint. ncc of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and m.ignjfieenre of the creation fills them with the same pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt when he first opened his eyes upon this glorious sci-ne. Troth Uvates with unborrowed charms, and whatever... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 320 pàgines
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms, and •whatever hath once given satisfaction will always do... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 304 pàgines
...real intrinsic value. After an acquaintanceof many thousand years with theworks of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms, and whatever hath once given satisfaction will always do it.... | |
 | 1803 - 342 pàgines
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms, and whatever hath once given satisfaction will always do it:... | |
 | 1803 - 408 pàgines
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 | 1809 - 570 pàgines
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt when he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth c.iptivates with unborrowed charms, and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 272 pàgines
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of •many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms ; and whatever hath once given satisfaction will always do... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 586 pàgines
...voise .then 26 'Ov ri <J>6)r>7 shook tlie earth : but now «Ta/lEDO'e TOTS' WV 8e " God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the "...pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt himself seiz" cd with as he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene." The grand description of the heavenly... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 594 pàgines
...shook the earth : but now ecTa/lEixTE TOTE' MJV $£ E7l»ry" G»d, tlie beauty and magnificence of tlie creation fills them with the " same pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt himself seiz" ed with as he first opened his eyes upon th:s glorious scene." • The grand description of tlie... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pàgines
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt, when he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms, and... | |
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