 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1769 - 476 pages
...thro' all their consequences and connexions, that conftitutes the man of reflexion, and diflinguifhes reafon from fancy. Providence, indeed, does not feem...opportunities to improve, as well as leifure to exercife their underftanding$; we fhall find, that thinking is one of th,e laft exerted privileges of cultivated humanity.... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...does not leem ta have to; mid any very conliderable number of 01 r Ipecies for an extenlive exercile of this higher faculty; as the thoughts of the far greater part of mankind are neceflarily refiramed within the ordinary purposes of animal life, lint even if we looit up to thole who move in... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...to have formed щ very confiderable number of our ípccie¡ for an extenfivt exeicife of this hig^tr faculty ; as the thoughts of the far greater part of mankind are necefiarily rrftnintd within the ordinary purpoles of animJ Hi-;. But even if we look up to thole who... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...not seem to have formed any very consider-' able number of our species for an extensive exercise cf this higher faculty ; as the thoughts of the far greater part of mankind are necessarily restrained, within the ordinary purposes of animal life : but even if we look up to those... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Oratory - 1810 - 514 pages
...does not seem to have formed any very considerable numher of our species for an extensive exercise of this higher faculty ; as the thoughts of the far greater part of mankind are necessarily restrained within the ordinary purposes of animal life : but even if we look up to those... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...does not seem to have formed any very considerable number of our species for an extensive exercise of this higher faculty ; as the thoughts of the far greater part of mankind are necessarily restrained within the ordinary purposes of animal life. But even if we look up to those... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1815 - 314 pages
...does not seem to have formed any very considerable number of our species for an extensive exercise of this higher faculty : as the thoughts of the far greater part of mankind are necessarily restrained within the ordinary purposes of animal life. But even if we look up to those... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 336 pages
...does not seem to have formed any very considerable number of our species for an extensive exercise of this higher faculty: as the thoughts of the far greater part of mankind are necessarily restrained within the ordinary purposes of animal life. But even if we look up to those... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...does not seem to have formed any very considerable number of our species for an extensive exercise gaze of noon. Hither the poet came. His eyes beheld Their own wan light throu necessarily restrained within the ordinary purposes of animal life. But even if we look up to those... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...does not seem to have formed any very considerable number of our species for an extensive exercise sometimes when musing without aim. It was, indeed, a wondrous sort of bliss T necessarily restrained within the ordinary purposes of animal life. But even if we look up to those... | |
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But even if we look up to those who move in much superior orbits, and who have opportunities to improve, as well as leisure to exercise their understandings, we shall find that thinking is one of the... 