Knowledge in general, expands the mind, exalts the faculties, refines the taste of pleasure, and opens innumerable sources of intellectual enjoyment. By means of it, we become less dependent for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites ; the gross pleasures... Calendar of the McGill University, Montreal - Page 61by McGill University - 1865Full view - About this book
| Industrial arts - 1824 - 726 pages
...satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites ; thft gross pleasures of sense arc more easily despised ; aud we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...herself, and expatiate in the cool and quiet walks of contem- , plation. The Author of nature has wisely annexed a pleasure to the exercise of out active... | |
| 1837 - 352 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...expatiate in the cool and quiet walks of contemplation. — Robert Hall. 46. Let Truth and Falsehood grapple. Whoever knew Truth put to the worse in a free... | |
| John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...herself and expatiate in the cool and quiet walks of contemplation—Robert Hall. Paupers.—When paupers evince any consciousness of neglect, they are... | |
| Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - Medicine - 1839 - 544 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sinister appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature. The labour of intellectual search resembles and exceeds the tumultuous pleasures of the chase, and... | |
| 206 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature." That the system of long hours has a demoralizing influence upon its subjects is not only acknowledged... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...satisfaction upon the sensative appetites ; the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...expatiate in the cool and quiet walks of contemplation. 3. The poor man who can read, and who possesses a taste for reading, can find entertainment at home,... | |
| 1844 - 1128 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...expatiate in the cool and quiet walks of contemplation." — Robert Hall. Distinguished Men always Hard-workers. — " When we read the lives of distinguished... | |
| Theology - 1851 - 922 pages
...the faculties, refines the taste of pleasure, and opens numerous sources of intellectual enjoyment. Instead of being continually solicited by the influence...retire within herself, and expatiate in the cool, quiet walks of contemplation. These are selfcreated satisfactions, always within our reach. They spring... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites; the ^ross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...in the cool and quiet walks of contemplation. The poor man, who can read, and who possesses a taste for reading, can find entertainment at home, without... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...satisfaction upon Hie sensitive appetites ; the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature. Instead of beinfj continually aolicited by the influence, and irritation of sensible objects, the piind can retire... | |
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