 | English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life, as would in time constitute a great part...contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself. This passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country, is to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 380 pages
...old age with subsidiary sight. Thus- was. the first artificer in glass employed, though without his knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and...student to contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold terself. This passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country,... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues pf science, and conferring the highest and most lasting...contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself. This passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country, is to be... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 376 pages
...violence of the wind; which might extend (he sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, arid charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of...contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself This passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country, is to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1809 - 352 pages
...prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highestand most lasting pleasures; he was enabling the student...contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself. This passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country, is to be... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...faciliiating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring th« highest and most lasting pleasures ; he was enabling...contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself. This passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country, is to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting pleasures ; he wa? enabling the student to contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself. This passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country, is to be... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 394 pages
...wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him atone time with the unbounded extent of the material creation,...contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself. Tnis passion for the honour of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country, is to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...of animal life ; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature, and succor old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first...contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold herself. This passion for the honor of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our owij country, is to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...of animal life ; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature, and succor old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first...student to contemplate nature, and the beauty to behold her-/ self. This passion for the honor of a profession, like that for the grandeur of our own country,... | |
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... which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and, what is yet of more importance,... 
