 But, since nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or possibility, of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the employments...  The Original - Page 39by Thomas Walker - 1850 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...man, and a man who desired to be no richer — " 'O fortunatus nimium, & bona qui sua novit!" To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be...the best mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the employments of a country life. It is, as Columella* calls it, " Res sine dubitatione proxima,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...man, and a man who desired to be no richer — " O fortunatus nimium, & bona qui sua novit!" To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be...the best mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the employments of a country life. It is, as Columella* calls it, " Res sine dubitatione proxima,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 284 pages
...rich man, and a man who desired to be no richer — " O fortunatus illmium, & bona qui sua novit!" retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world,...the best mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the employments of a country life. It is, as Columella* calls it, " Res sine dubitatione proxima,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...man, and a man who desired to be no richer — 0 fbrtunatus nimium, & bona qui sua novit ! To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city ; to be a philosopher, from the world ; or raiher, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. But, since nature... | |
 | 1821 - 424 pages
...man, and a man who desired to be no richer— " O fortunatus m,ninm, et bona qui sua novit I" To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city ; to be...the best mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the employments of a country life. It is, as Columella* calls it, "Res sine dubitatioue proxima,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...man, and a man who desired to be no richer — " O fortuuatus nimiom, et bona qui sun novit !" To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city ; to be...the best mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the employments of a country life. It is, as Columellai calls it, " lies sine dubitatione proxima,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 246 pages
...man, and a man who desired to be no richer— " O fortunatus mmium, et bona qui sun novit!" To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be...the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.But, since nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...of the country. This sage retreat from the cares of life Cowley* has well described :-—" To be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city; to be a...world as it is man's, into the world as it is God's. Perhaps Cowper had this distinction in his view— God made the country, and man made the town. Ceremonies.... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...of the country. This sage retreat from the cares of life Cowley* has well described : — " To be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city ; to be...world as it is man's, into the world as it is God's. Perhaps Cowper had this distinction in his view — God made the country, and man made the town. Ceremonies.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...man, and a man who desired to be no richer — " O fortunatus uimium, etbona qui sua novit!" To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city ; to be...the best mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the employments of a country life. It is, as Columella calls it, "Res sine dubi" tatione proxima,... | |
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