 | Cotton Mather - Natural theology - 1815 - 378 pages
...myself with the sweets of all the sciences, to which the more polite part of mankind ordinarily pretend. I am entertained with all kinds of histories, ancient...curiosities, which by all sorts of learning are brought to the curious. Nevertheless, it appears to me more valuable than all this, it appears more delectable,... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 514 pages
...am able," says he, " with little study, to write in seven languages. I feast myself with the sweets of all the sciences, which the more polite part of...curiosities which, by all sorts of learning, are brought to the curious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond any sensual ones. Nevertheless, all this... | |
 | Religion - 1842 - 1046 pages
...am able," says he, " with little study, to write in seven languages. I feast myself with the sweets of all the sciences, which the more polite part of...curiosities which, by all sorts of learning, are brought to the curious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond any sensual ones. Nevertheless, all this... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 pages
...seven languages. I feast myself with the sweets of all the sciences, which the more polite part cf mankind ordinarily pretend to. I am entertained with...curiosities which, by all sorts of learning, are brought to the curious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond any sensual ones. Nevertheless, all this... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1844 - 192 pages
...am able," he says, " with little study, to write in seven languages. I feast myself with the sweets of all the sciences, which the more polite part of...curiosities which, by all sorts of learning, are brought to the curious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond any sensual ones. Nevertheless, all this... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 294 pages
...lost U the AllauUc."— Life of Cotton M»Uier, p. 14, 62 part of mankind ordinarily pretend unto. I am entertained with all kinds of histories, ancient...to the curiosities, which by all sorts of learning ore brought unto the curious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond my sensual ones."* The great... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...part of mankind ordinarily pretend unto. I am entertained with nil kinds of histories, ancient nnd modern. I am no stranger to the curiosities, which by all sorts of learning are brought nnto the curious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond my sensual ones."* The great work of... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...Antin. Society. t On the Death of Dr. < 62 COTTON MATHER. part of Mankind ordinarily pretend unto. I am entertained with all kinds of histories, ancient...which by all sorts of learning are brought unto the carious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond my sensual ones."* The great work of Mather, to... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...Mass. Historical Society, and the American Antin. Society. part of mankind ordinarily pretend unto. I am entertained with all kinds of histories, ancient...curious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond my sensual ones."* The great work of Mather, to which many of his writings are properly appendices,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1871 - 454 pages
...have a historical value. His wife was a daughter of the Rev. John Cotton, whose name hp gave his son. of himself, " I am not unable, with a little study,...mostly theological and historical treatises, though lie wrote a few verses, and the " Psaltcrium Ainericanum," a very literal and prosy version of the... | |
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with little study, to write in seven languages. I feast myself with the sweets of all the sciences, which the more polite part of mankind ordinarily pretend to. I am entertained with all kinds of histories, ancient and modern. I am no stranger to the... 
