 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...also procureth delight, by gratifying curiosity with its rareness, as semblance of difficulty : (as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ;...complaisance ; and by seasoning matters, otherwise distateful or insipid, with an unusual and thence grateful tang.". elined upon their chairs, with their... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...It also procureth delight, by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ; as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ;...spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit ia way of emulation or complaisance ; and by seasoning matters, otherwise distasteful or insipid, with... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...also procureth delight, by gratifying curiosity with its- rareness or semblance of difficulty ; as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ;...; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoicing to such dispositions of spirit in way of emulation or complaisance ; and by seasoning matters,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...It also procureth delight, by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ; as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, ^ut their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure ; by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...delight, as it gratifies curiosity " with a singular effect, and with a semblance of " difficulty, — by diverting the mind from its road of " serious thoughts, — by instilling airiness of spirit, — " and by seasoning what is insipid with a new, and " grateful relish." * A... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...It also procureth delight by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty (as monsters, not for their beauty but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use but their abstraseness, are beheld with pleasure ;) by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ;... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...pro» cureth delight, by gratifying curiosity, with its 'rajfenessj or semblance of difficulty: (as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their, usej but their abstruseness, are, beheld with pleasure:) by diverting the mind from its road of serious... | |
 | James Boaden - Actors - 1825 - 646 pages
...semblance of difficulty : by diverting the mind " from its road of serious thoughts ; by instilling gayety and " airiness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions...spirit in way of emulation or complaisance ; and by sea" soning matters, otherwise distasteful or insipid, with an " unusual and thence grateful tang."... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ; as monsters, not for their M auty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abtruseness, are beheld with pleasure ; by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ; by... | |
 | James Boaden - Actors - 1825 - 650 pages
...gar : it procureth delight by gratifying curiosity with its " rareness or semblance of difficulty : by diverting the mind " from its road of serious thoughts : by instilling gayety and "airiness of spirit; by provoking to such dispositions of " spirit in way of emulation or... | |
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Aristotle such persons are termed cmSefioi. dextrous men and fvrpoTroi, men of facile or versatile manners, who can easily turn themselves to all things, or turn all things to themselves.) It also procureth delight by gratifying curiosity with its rareness... 
