 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 500 sayfa
...entertain* ments and pleafures we moft value in life, are fuch as dupe and play the wag with the fenfes. For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by hapfinefs, as it has refpecl either to the underflanding or the fenfes, we fhall find all its properties... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 sayfa
...ear and the eye, the same that tickling is to the touch. Those entertainments and pleasures we most value in life, are such as dupe and play the wag with...understood by happiness, as it has respect either to thte understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts, will herd under this... | |
 | George Coleraine, George Hanger - 1801 - 356 sayfa
...sparing of it as yourselves. As it is your province to make man happy, truth has nothing to do in it ; for, if we take an examination of what is generally...to the understanding or the senses, we shall find that all its properties will end under this short definition : that, it is a perpetual possession of... | |
 | George Hanger - 1801 - 356 sayfa
...your province to make man happy, truth has nothing to do in it ; for, if we take an examination pf what is generally understood by happiness, as it has...to the understanding or the senses, we shall find that all its properties will end under this short definition: that, it is a perpetual possession of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1812 - 250 sayfa
...ear and the eye, the same that tickling is to the touch. Those entertainments and pleasures we most value in life, are such as dupe and play the wag with...; that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceiled. And first, with relation to the mind or understanding, it is manifest, what mighty advantages... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1831 - 184 sayfa
...ear and the eye the same that tickling is to the touch. Those entertainments and pleasures we48) most value in life, are such as dupe and play the wag with the senses. For if we49) take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness , as it has respect either to... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 488 sayfa
...design of the senses. Swift, in his Tale of a Tub, says that "those entertainments and pleasures we most value in life, are such as dupe and play the wag with the senses." This assertion fitly applies to thousands of people. Do not show-boxes attract a larger number of eyes... | |
 | George Peck - 1854 - 312 sayfa
...ear and the eye the same that tickling is to the touch. Those entertainments and pleasures we most value in life, are such as dupe and play the wag with the senses. With relation to the mind and understanding it is manifest what mighty advantages fiction has over... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 sayfa
...the eye and ear the same that tickling is to the touch. Those entertainments and pleasures we most value in life, are such as dupe and play the wag with the senses." * " There is more of innocent delusion than of voluntary imposture in the world ; they who have most... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1887 - 272 sayfa
...senses, ror, it we vaiw. 722 Hood,s detestation of canters. Less reverential than a Mohawh squaiv. take an examination of what is generally understood...is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. Thomas Hood, of all men, had the greatest detestation of canters. An awful widow, it is stated, having... | |
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For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition ; that it is a perpetual possession... 
