 But the situation in which the advantages of that endowment of mind which letters bestow are chiefly conspicuous, is old age, when a man's society is necessarily circumscribed, and his powers of active enjoyment are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the...  The British Essayists: The Observer - Стр. 212авторы: Alexander Chalmers - 1802Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - Страниц: 418
...active enjoyment are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the bustle of affairs, and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion,...amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut off almost every source of enjoyment. But to him who has stored his mind with the information, and can... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1815 - Страниц: 302
...and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source ot mental exertion or emplo)'ment, often settles into the gloom of melancholy and peevishness,...or petrifies his feelings by habitual intoxication. Frqm an old man whose gratifications were solely derived from those sensual appetites which time has... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - Страниц: 356
...active enjoyments are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the bustle of affairs and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion...amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut off almost every source of enjoyment. But to him who has stored his mind with the information, and can... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Страниц: 354
...active enjoyments are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the bustle of affairs and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion...amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut off almost every source of enjoyment. But to him who has stored his mind with the information, and can... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 354
...calling. The lawyer, the merchant, and the soldier (this last perhaps, from obvious enough causes, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion...amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut off almost every source of enjoyment. But to him who has stored his mind with the information, and can... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 356
...active enjoyments are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the bustle of affairs and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion...gratifications were solely derived from those sensual appetites whioh time has blunted, or from those trivial amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - Страниц: 802
...active enjoyments are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the bustle of affairs and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion...gratifications were solely derived from those sensual appetites whioh time has blunted, or from those trivial amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - Страниц: 270
...active enjoyment are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the bustle of affairs, and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion...amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut off almost every source of enjoyment. But to him who has stored his mind with the information, and can... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood, George Barrell Emerson - 1830 - Страниц: 424
...active enjoyment are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the bustle of affairs, and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion...amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut off almost every source of enjoyment. But to him who has stored his mind with the information, and can... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - Страниц: 238
...enjoyment are unavoidably diminished. 26. Unfit for the bustle of affairs, and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion...amusements of which youth only can share, age has cut off almost every source of enjoyment. 27. But to him who has stored his mind with the information, and... | |
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