For surely, nothing can so much disturb the passions, or perplex the intellects of man, as the disruption of his union with visible nature ; a separation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him ; a change not only of the place, but the manner... The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Page 2001750Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1764 - 582 pages
...his union with vifible neture, a feparation from every thing that has hitherto engaged or delighted him ; a change not only of the place, but the manner of his being : an entrance into a'ftate, not limply unknown, but which perhaps he has not faculties' to know, an immediate and perceptible... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 pages
...or perplex the intellects of man, as the difruption of his union with viable .nature ; a feparation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him...manner of his being ; an entrance into a ftate not fun ply which he knows not, but which perhaps he has not faculties to know; ar» .immediate and perceptible... | |
| 1785 - 596 pages
...pamons, or perplex the intellects of man, as the difruption of his union with vifible nature; a fepantion from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him;...place, but the manner of his being; an entrance into a (late not fimply wfikh he knows not, but which perhaps he has not faculties to know; an immediate and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...; a change not only of the place, but the manner of his being; an entrance into a (tate, not limply which he knows not, but which perhaps he has not faculties...an immediate and perceptible communication with the Supreme Being, and, what is above all diltrel'sful and alarming, the final fcntence, and unalterable... | |
| 1796 - 554 pages
...his union with vifible nature, a feparation from every thing that has hitherto engaged or delighted him ; a change not only of the place, but the manner of his being : an entrance into a flate, not iimply unknown, but which perhaps he has not faculties to know, an immediate and perceptible... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...or perplex the intellects of man, as the difruption of his union with vilible nature, a feparation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him ; a change not only of the place, but of the manner of being ; an entrance into a ftate not fimply which he knows not, but which, perhaps,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...or perplex the intellects of man, as the difruption of his union with vifible nature; a feparation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him...not faculties to know ; an immediate and perceptible com. - L • munimunication with the fupreme Being, and, what is above all diftrefsful and alarming,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...or perplex the intellects of man, as the difruption of his union with vifible nature ; a feparation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him...not, but which perhaps he has not faculties to know j an immediate and perceptible com. municatton with the fupreme Being, and, what is above all diftrefsful... | |
| 1803 - 290 pages
...or perplex the intellects of man, as the diswiption of his union with visible nature ; a separation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him...place, but the manner of his being ; an entrance into a ^ate not simply which he knows not, but which perhaps he has not faculties to know ; an immediate and... | |
| William Giles - 1804 - 280 pages
...or perplex the intellects of man, as the disruption of his union with visible nature ; a separation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him ; a change not only of the place, c 2 but the manner of his being ; an entrance into a state, not simply which he knows not, but which,... | |
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