| William Godwin - 1804 - 554 pagina’s
...known each ' other so intimately, and mutually looked to each other for fellowship in amusement and relief in adversity during so long a period, should...nothing, as if faculties were nothing, as if virtue was VOL. II. » CHAP, nothing : as if all that was sweetest, and all XVII. , ° . , . , ithat was highest... | |
| 1804 - 578 pagina’s
...with a lort of defpondence, with a feeling (not merely hoilile to the empty and frivolous delufions of ambition; but) as if refinement was nothing, as if faculties were nothing, as if virtue was nothing, as if all that was fweetell, and all that was higheft in human nature, was an idle ihow, was... | |
| 1804 - 548 pagina’s
...defpondence, with a leeling (not mere!) holtue to the empty and frivolous dt-Iuiions of ambition ; but) as it refinement was nothing, as if faculties were nothing, as if virtue was nothing, as if ail that was Iweeteiî, and all that was higheit in human nature, wa< an idle Ihow,... | |
| Alexander Crombie - 1830 - 490 pagina’s
...truths, require the present tense; it should be, " that there is a God." " impresses us with a feeling, as if refinement was nothing, as if faculties were nothing, as if virtue was nothing, as if all that was sweetest, and all that was highest in human nature, was an idle show."... | |
| Alexander Crombie - 1853 - 324 pagina’s
...truths, require the present tense ; it should be, "that there is a God." " impresses us with a feeling, as if refinement was nothing, as if faculties were nothing, as if virtue was nothing, as if all that was sweetest, and all that was highest in human nature was an idle show." —... | |
| 1877 - 240 pagina’s
...known each other so intimately, and mutually looked to each other for fellowship in amusement, and relief in adversity during so long a period, should...eyes of estrangement, indifference, and distaste." Gower had the misfortune, along with other infirmities of old age, to lose his sight in the first year... | |
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