 | 1798 - 432 pages
...happineis at an eafy rate, unalloyed by any dehafing mixture, can I confer on him a greater blerling ? Nothing is more favourable to enjoyment than the combination...refearches of natural hiftory afford in great perfection i and fuch is the immenfe variety of its objects, that the labours of the longeft life cannot exhauft... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1794 - 512 pages
...happinefs at an eafy rate, unal-> loyed by any debafing mixture, can I confer on him a greater bleflmg ? Nothing is more favourable to enjoyment than the combination of bodily exertion and ardour of mind. This, the refcarches of natural hiftory afford in great perfection ; and fuch is the immeufe variety of its objects,... | |
 | 1802 - 314 pages
...conceptions of nature and its author ? If I offer a man happinefs at an eafy rate, unalloyed by any debafmg mixture, can I confer on him a greater bleffing ?...itfelf a cheap ftudy ; yet it may be purfued in a very cxpenfive manner, by all the apparatus of cabinets, jpurchafed colle&ions, prints and drawings. But... | |
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...happiness at an easy rate, unallayed by any debasing mixture, "can I confer on him a greater blessing? Nothing is more favourable to enjoyment than the combination of bodily exertion and ardour of mind. This the researches of natural history afford in great perfection, and such is the immense variety of its objects,... | |
 | 1822 - 394 pages
...ride and walk interesting, and converted the plodding rounds of business into excursions of pleasure. Nothing is. more favourable to enjoyment than the...combination of bodily exertion and ardour of mind. This, the study in question affords in the highest degree, and such is the immense variety of its objects, that... | |
 | 1822 - 206 pages
...interesting, anl converted the plodding rounds of business "in«o excursions of pleasure. Nothing is mo:'C favourable to enjoyment than the combination of bodily exertion and ardour of mind. This, t'-.e study in question affords in the highest derive, and such is the immense variety of its object?,... | |
 | Hygiene - 1830 - 398 pages
...debasing mixture, can 1 confer on him a greater blessing? Nothing is more favourable to health and enjoyment than the combination of bodily exertion and ardour of mind. This, the researches of natural history afford in great perfection : and such is the immense variety of its objects,... | |
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... is it not enough to open a fource of copious and cheap amufement, which tends to harmonize the mind, and elevate it to worthy conceptions of nature and its author? If I offer a man... 