 ... proceeds not from their disrelishing what they possess; and the pleasure of a new enjoyment is not with them measured by its novelty (which is a thing merely foreign and accidental), but by its real intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand...  Death; with other poems - Page 236by Robert Montgomery - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 566 pages
...value. After an acquaint. ncc of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and m.ignjfieenre of the creation fills them with the same pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt when he first opened his eyes upon this glorious sci-ne. Troth Uvates with unborrowed charms, and whatever... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 320 pages
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms, and •whatever hath once given satisfaction will always do... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 304 pages
...real intrinsic value. After an acquaintanceof many thousand years with theworks of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms, and whatever hath once given satisfaction will always do it.... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms, and whatever hath once given satisfaction will always do it:... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 408 pages
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 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 570 pages
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt when he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth c.iptivates with unborrowed charms, and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 272 pages
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of •many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms ; and whatever hath once given satisfaction will always do... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 586 pages
...voise .then 26 'Ov ri <J>6)r>7 shook tlie earth : but now «Ta/lEDO'e TOTS' WV 8e " God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the "...pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt himself seiz" cd with as he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene." The grand description of the heavenly... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 594 pages
...shook the earth : but now ecTa/lEixTE TOTE' MJV $£ E7l»ry" G»d, tlie beauty and magnificence of tlie creation fills them with the " same pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt himself seiz" ed with as he first opened his eyes upon th:s glorious scene." • The grand description of tlie... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...intrinsic value. After an acquaintance of many thousand years with the works of God, the beauty and magnificence of the creation fills them with the same...pleasing wonder and profound awe, which Adam felt, when he first opened his eyes upon this glorious scene. Truth captivates with unborrowed charms, and... | |
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