 | William Smellie - 1790 - 576 páginas
...mote delicate and refined ; with perceptions more acute and penetrating; with a tafte fo exquifite that the objects around him could by no means gratify it; obliged to feed upon nourifhment too grofs for his frame ; he muft be born only to be miferable, and the continuation... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 páginas
...around him * Smellie — See his Philosophy of Natural History, vol. I. f. 526. 238 LIFE OF him would by no means gratify it ; obliged to feed on nourishment...existence would be utterly impossible. Even in our present condition, the sameness and the insipidity of objects and pursuits, the futility of pleasure, and the... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 páginas
...perceptions more acute and penetrating, with a taste so exquisite, that the objects around him would by no means gratify it, obliged to feed on nourishment...existence would be utterly impossible. Even in our present condition, the sameness, and the insipidity of objects and pursuits, the futility of pleasure, and... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 páginas
...him would by no means gratify it; * Smellie — See his Philosophy of Natural History, vol. ip 526. it; obliged to feed on nourishment too gross for his...existence would be utterly impossible. Even in our present condition, the sameness and the insipidity of objects and pursuits, the futility of pleasure, and the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 páginas
...no means gratify it; * Smellie—See bis Philosophy of Natural History, vol. ip 526. 236 THE LIFE OF it; obliged to feed on nourishment too gross for his...•would be utterly impossible. Even in our present condition, the sameness and the insipidity of objects and pursuits, the futility of pleasure, and the... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 páginas
...perceptions more acute and penetrating, with a taste so exquisite, that the objects around it would by no means gratify it, obliged to feed on nourishment...existence would be utterly impossible. Even in our present condition, the sameness and insipidity of objects and pursuits, the futility of pleasure, and the infinite... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1811 - 516 páginas
...thought occurred, That no sentient being, whose mental powers were greatly superior, could possibly live and be happy in this world, If such a being really...existence would be utterly impossible. Even in our present condition, the sameness and insipidity of objects, pursuits, the futility of pleasure, and infinite... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 páginas
...perceptions more acute and penetrating ; with a taste so exquisite that the objects around him would by no means gratify it ; obliged to feed on nourishment...existence would be utterly impossible. Even in our present condition, the sameness and the insipidity of objects and pursuits, the futility of pleasure, and the... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1820 - 484 páginas
...perceptions more acute and penetrating ; with a taste so exquisite, that the objects around him would by no means gratify it ; obliged to feed on nourishment...for his frame ; he must be born only to be miserable * Smellie — See his Pliilotophy of Natural History, vol. i. p.&W. serable, and the continuation of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 páginas
...perceptions more acute and penetrating ; with a taste BO exquisite that the objects around him would by no means gratify it ; obliged to feed on nourishment too gross for his frame ; he must be born-only to be miserable ; and the continuation of his existence would be utterly impossible. Even... | |
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If such a being really existed, his misery would be extreme. With senses more delicate and refined, with perceptions more acute and penetrating; with a taste so exquisite that the objects around him could by no means gratify it; obliged to feed on nourishment... 
