 If you see another instrument or animal, in some respects like, but differing in other particulars, you find it pleasing to compare them together, and to note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure...  The London Magazine - Page 5621827Full view - About this book
 | George Combe - Human beings - 1835 - 422 pages
...Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to nny of the common purposes of life; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for ityou do not gratify your palate, or any other, bodily appetite; and yet it is so pleasing that you... | |
 | George Combe - Ethics - 1836 - 416 pages
...note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any...gratify your palate, or any other bodily appetite ; ai A. yet it is so pleasing that you would give something out of your pocket to obtain it, and would... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Education - 1839 - 100 pages
...note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any...give something out of your pocket to obtain it, and forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from science is exactly of the like... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Political science - 1839 - 514 pages
...note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life; yet it is a pleasure—an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it; you do not gratify your palate, or any... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1840 - 134 pages
...note in what they agree and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of grati¿cation is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any...is so pleasing that you would give something out of yonr pocket to obtain it, and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived... | |
 | George Combe - Human beings - 1841 - 464 pages
...note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any...would forego some bodily enjoyment for .its sake. The pleasure derived from science is exactly of the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same.'*... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 382 pages
...note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any...and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from science is exactly of the like nature, or rather it is the very same. For... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 344 pages
...note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any...and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from science is exactly of the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1841 - 454 pages
...note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any...and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from science is exactly of the like nature, or rather it is the very same.'* This... | |
 | George Combe - Human behavior - 1841 - 140 pages
...note in what they agree, and in what they ditfer. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any...life : yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You arc nothing the richer for it ; you do not gratify your palate, or any other hodily appetite ; and... | |
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