 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 - 1860 - 446 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...appetite ; and yet it is so pleasing that you would give some' thing out of your pocket to obtain it, and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The... | |
 | george combe - 1860 - 390 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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the coinmon purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment....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 - 1872 - 458 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...for it ; you do not gratify your palate or any other hodily appetite ; and yet it is so pleasing, that you would give something out of your pocket to obtain... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...and to note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now all this 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 other... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1884 - 526 pages
...and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. . . . 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... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...and base, in gaining knowledge for its own sake. . . . 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 - Human beings - 1888 - 494 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...enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it; you dc not gratify your palate, or any other bodily appetite; and yet it is so pleasing that you would... | |
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