| John Moore - 1803 - Страниц: 312
...too be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ENNUI. OF all the contrivances to exclude this intruding...debasing and destructive is the use of intoxicating liquors : that pernicious habit blunts all desire of improvement, deadens emulation, obscures the understanding,... | |
| John Moore - 1803 - Страниц: 322
...seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ENNUI. Or all the contrivances to exclude this intruding demon...debasing and destructive is the use of intoxicating liquors : that pernicious habit blunts all de236 sire of improvement, deadens emulation, obscures the... | |
| 1828 - Страниц: 492
...infirmities, their triumphs with defeat. '* Of all the contrivances to exclude the intruding demon Ennui from the mind of man, the most debasing and destructive is, the use of intoxicating liquors ; that pernicious habit blunts all desire of improvement, deadens emulation, obscures the understanding,... | |
| 1829 - Страниц: 762
...infirmities, their triumphs with defeat, " Of all the contrivances to exclude the intruding demon Ennui from the mind of man, the most debasing and destructive is, the use of intoxicating liquors; that pernicious habit blunts all desire of improvement, deadens emulation, obscures the understanding,... | |
| 1891 - Страниц: 444
...passage is very true and striking : — " Of all the contrivances to exclude this intruding demon, ennui, from the mind of man the most debasing and destructive is the use of intoxicating liquors ; that pernicious habit blunts all desire of improvement, darkens emulation, obscures the understanding,... | |
| Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - 1900 - Страниц: 468
...passage is very true and striking : — " Of all the contrivances to exclude this intruding demon, ennui, from the mind of man, the most debasing and destructive is the use of intoxicating liquors ; that pernicious habit blunts all desire of improvement, darkens emulation, obscures the understanding,... | |
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