 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1794 - 446 pages
...pen, the bloom of vice fhall wither, the arts of hypocrify be overthrown, and prejudice extinguifhed. To the eye of the bold fatirift, to the mind of the...ever been addicted to ferious retirement. It " is the charadkriftic of little and frivolous tc minds to be wholly occupied with the vulgar " objects of life.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Conduct of life - 1798 - 362 pages
...tendernefs of devotion, and pours itfel/ forth before him who made, and redeemed it. The great and worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to ferious retirement. Refined and enlarged minds leave the world behind them, — feel a call for higher pleaSi— and feek... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1800 - 410 pages
...fallacies on which prejudice is founded. TRUTH unfolds her charms in Solitude with fuperior fplendor. A great and good man, Dr. Blair, of Edinburgh, fays,...worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever " been addi&ed to ferious retirement. It is the " chara&eriftic of little and frivolous minds to " be wholly... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 510 pages
...any rafte for the pleafures of the underftanding, and the heart ? The great and1 the worthy,; tlie pious and; the' virtuous, have ever been addicted to ferious retirement. It is the charader*ifttc of. little and frivolous minds, to be .wholly occupied with the vulgar .objects of life.... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1804 - 406 pages
...fallacies on which prejudice is founded. TRUTH unfolds her charms in Solitude with fuperior fplendour. A great and good man, Dr. Blair, of Edinburgh, fays,...worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever " been addi&ed to ferious retirement. It is the " characteriftic of little and frivolous minds, to *' be wholly... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1808 - 430 pages
...charms in Solitude with superior splendour. A great and good man, Dr. Blair, of Edinburgh, says, *' The great and the •worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds to be wholly occupied with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...has never acquired any tafte 'Or the pleafures of th; underftanding, and die heart ? M 2 The gre;it and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous have ever been addicted to ferious retirement. It is th chara<teriftic of link uud frivolous, minds, to be wholly od cupied with the vulgar objects of life.... | |
 | 1817 - 646 pages
...the pioin and the virtuous, have ever heen addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds, to be wholly occupied with the vulgar objects of life. These fill up their desires, and supply all the entertainment which their coarse apprehensions... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 488 pages
...sensible objects, and has never acquired any taste for the pleasures of the understanding and the heart ? The great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds to be wholly occupied with... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820 - 540 pages
...sensible objects, and has never acquired any taste for the pleasures of the understanding, and the heart? The great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds, to be wholly occupied with... | |
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The great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds to be wholly occupied with the vulgar objects of life. These fill up their desires, and supply... 
