 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions ot them. 1 he mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to...narrow compass, and shortened on every side by the neighbourhood of vails or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy itself under a sort of confinement, VOL. 11. N when when the sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and shortened on every side by the neighbourhood... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy itself un&er a sort of confinement, when the sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and shortened on every... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...period, than superfluous dragging words at the conclusion. " The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks *' like a restraint upon it, and is apt...confinement, when the sight is pent up in a narrow comj *' pass, and shortened on every side by the neighbourhood of " walls or mountains. On the contrary,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates everything that looks...narrow compass, and Shortened on every side by the neighbourhood of walls or. mountains. On the contrary, a spacious ' horizon is an image of liberty,... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 350 pages
...and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to...when the sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and shbrtened on every side by the neighbourhood of walls or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1811 - 464 pages
...than superfluous dragging words at the conclusion. " The mind of man naturally hat s every thing " that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to...when the " sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and short" ened on every side by the neighbourhood of walls *' or mountains. On the contrary, ,a spacious... | |
 | Ethelinda Margaretta Thorpe Potts - 1814 - 264 pages
...Wales without great fatigue, and, as the same author says, "the mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to...narrow compass, and shortened on every side by the neighbourhood of walls or mountains ; on the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, when... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...the soul, at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like -restraint upon it, and is apt •to fancy itself under a sort of confinement, when the S sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and shortened, on every side, by -the neighborhood of. walls... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...period, than superfluous dragging words at the conclusion. ' The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to...narrow compass, and shortened on every side by the neighbourhood of walls or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where... | |
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The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy itself under a sort of confinement, when the sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and shortened on every side by the neighbourhood of walls or mountains.... 
