 | John Foster - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...a declivity was not more unconquerable and invariable than the determination of his feelings toward the main object. The importance of this object held his faculties in a state of determination which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...bribe in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him from his great work. The law which carries water down a declivity, was not more unconquerable...main object. The importance of this object held his feelings in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by ligMer interests, and on which... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive, after their final adjustment. The law which carries water down a declivity was not more unconquerable...of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by higher interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature, or of art had no power. He had no... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 1078
...pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive, after their final adjustment. The law which carries water down a declivity was not more unconquerable...of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by higher interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature or of art had no power. He had no... | |
 | Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...Howard in the accomplishment of his plans for the good of mankind, it is remarked ; " The importance i of this object held his faculties in a state of excitement,...the beauties of nature and of art had no power."* There is no improvement in the works of the imagination, for this reason ; they are the invention of... | |
 | Robert Stephens McAll - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...connected,—and even Rome itself. " The importance " of his object held his faculties in a state of excite" ment which was too rigid to be affected by lighter " interests,...the beauties of " nature and of art had no power; like the invisible " spirits who fulfil their commission of philanthropy " among mortals, and care... | |
 | John Waddington - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 82
...energies of our being for this, its noblest end. It is said of Howard, that " the importance of his object held his faculties in a state of excitement,...therefore, the beauties of nature and of art had no power — like the invisible spirits, who fulfil their commission of philanthropy among mortals, and care... | |
 | 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment. The law which carries water down a declivity was not more unconquerable...determination of his feelings towards the main object." When he. visited Rome, he c had no time to survey its statuary, its pictures, and its splendid buildings... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...pleasure that would have detained him a wed inactive after their final adjustment. The law whs-k carries x & George" George Combe / pr x &ds from an unusual quiescenc x & the brain, and inability of feelmgi toward the main object The importance of this ob;« held his faculties in a state of excitement... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...unconquerable - and invariable, \ [object. than ( ) the determination of his feelings - towards the mam The importance - of this object, held his faculties...and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and art had no power. \ He had no leisure feeling which he could ( ) spare, / all his subordinate feelings... | |
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The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment. 
