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" He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives... "
Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Abridged. With Questions - Page 128
by Hugh Blair - 1831 - 268 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1729 - 320 pages
...every thing he fees, and makes the mod rude uncultivated Parts of Nature adminifter to his Pleafures : So that he looks upon the World, as it were in another Light, and difcovers in it a Multitude of Charms, that conceal themfelves from the generality of Mankind, THERE...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1778 - 342 pages
...thing he fees, and makes the moil rude uncultivated parts of nature adminiller to his pleafures : fo that he looks upon the world, as it were in another light, and difcovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal themfdves from the generality of mankind. There...
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Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that science

Hugh Blair - English language - 1784 - 412 pages
...greater fa" tisfaElion in the profpeft of fields and mea~ dows, than another does in the pojfeffion* It gives him, indeed, a kind of property 'in every thing he fees ; and makes the moji fv.de uncultivated parts of nature adminijler to his pleafures : So that...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...greater fatisfaflion in the " proipeft of fields and meadows, than another " does in the poflellion. It gives him, indeed, a " kind of property in every thing he fees ; and " makes the moft rude, uncultivated parts of nar " ture adminifter to his pleafures : ib...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2

Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 500 pages
...qualification only of a man. The other inftance of negligence, is towards the end of the paragraph — fo that he looks upon the world, as it were , in another light. — - By another light, Mr. Addifon means, a light different from that in which other men view the...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...thing he. foes ; and makes the mojl rude uncultivated parts of nature admm'ijler to his pieafures : So that he looks upon the world, as it 'were, in another light, and difco'oers in it a multitude of charms that conceal themf.hcs from the generality of manfaJ. This fentence...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed, a kind of property in every thing...his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as ii were in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal themselves from the...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and. meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every...discovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. . There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle...
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1804 - 412 pages
...a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every...discovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick

Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...a greater fatisfacJion in the profpecj of fields and meadows, than another does in the poffefftttn. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he fees ; and makes the mojl rude uncultivated farts of nature admintfler /? his pleafure : fo that he...
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