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" Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling... "
Loudon's Architectural Magazine: And Journal of Improvement in Architecture ... - Page 349
edited by - 1834
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel, Volume 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 pages
...was 'not unskilful on the violin, he had formed a very curious domestic band. He was wont to say : " Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect; that every one should study...
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Leigh Hunt's London Journal, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...selfconceit, stupidity, or hypochondria, that renders him unpliant and unguidable. A good Daily Memorandum. Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impression of the beautiful and the perfect ; that every one should...
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Volume 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 350 pages
...was not unskilful on the violin, he had formed a very curious domestic band. He was wont to say : " Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study,...
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Eliza Cook's Journal, Volume 4

Eliza Cook - 1850 - 436 pages
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 2

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life, and elevation of purpose. It lives too fa"st. Thoreau. Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study,...
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Cottage Residences: Or, A Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - 1856 - 268 pages
...are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest, BO easily do the spirit and the sense grow dead to the impression of the Beautiful and the Perfect, that every person should strive to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things, by everything in his...
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The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Translations from the German: (XIV ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1864 - 352 pages
...was not unskilful on the violin, he had formed a very curious domestic band. He was wont to say : " Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study,...
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The China magazine: a ... miscellany, Volumes 1-2

1868 - 484 pages
...purChinese. chased the tiger for twenty dollars and let him go. The people laughed at him very MEN are BO inclined to content themselves with what is commonest, the spirit and the much at this, for the scholar was so poor that, his wife having died, he could not afford senses so...
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The California Scrap-book: A Repository of Useful Information and Select ...

1869 - 730 pages
...beauty of the soul. TRINITY RIVER, August, 1858. San Francisco Mirror, September 3, 1860. THE BEAUTIFUL. are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest, the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impression of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...for the man of genius to move with airy freedom, on the pinnacle whose very aspect makes us giddy. Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect ; that every one should...
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