 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 506 pages
...is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue ; pleasures of some sort are as necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health ; and those who resist gaiety will be likely to fall a sacrifice to appetite ; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand, and afford to... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 pages
...day) is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue ; pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health ; and...and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. Remember (continued he) that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...necessary to the intellectual as to piozzi the corporeal health ; and those who resist gaiety will P . o\. be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to...and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. Remember,' continued he,' that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...necessary to the intellectual as to pioz« the corporeal health ; and those who resist gaiety will p. 81! be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to...and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. Remember,' continued he, ' that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...'is dan* gerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health; and...and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. Remember,' continued he, ' that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...thousand reasons which ought to restrain a man from drony solitude and useless retirement." 56. Solitude. likely, for the most part, to fall a sacrifice to...and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. " Remember," continued he, " that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious,... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
..." is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue : pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health ; and...and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. " Remember," continued he, " that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
..." is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health ; and those who resist gaiety will be likely, for the molt part, to fall a sacrifice to appetite ; for tho solicitations of sense are always at hand, and... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...thousand reasons which ought to restrain a man from drony solitude and useless retirement." 56. Solitude. part, to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations...and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. " Remember," continued he, " that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious,... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...thousand reasons which ought to restrain a man from drony solitude and useless retirement." 56. Solitude. part, to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations...and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. " Remember," continued he, " that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious,... | |
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... and this (says he) is one of the thousand reasons which ought to restrain a man from drony solitude and useless retirement. Solitude (added he one day) is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue : pleasures of some sort are necessary... 
