 But since nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best mixture of human affairs that we can make are the employments of...  The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse - Page 134by Abraham Cowley - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1714 - 456 pages
...excellent Cow ley, is but a Retreat; from the City, to be a Philofopher apart from the World ; or rather, a Retreat from the World, as it is Man's, into the World, as it God's. There is no. other fort of Life, that affords fo, LU С RETIU S. Theih fome began to GRAFT ;... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 pages
...be a hufbandman, is but a retreat from the city ; to be a philofopher, from the world ; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. But, fince nature denies to moft men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...be a hufbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philofopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. But, fince nature denies to moft men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. But, fince nature denies to moft men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or poffibility, of applying themfelves wholly to philofophy, the beft mixture of human affairs that we... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 pages
...retreat from the worid, as it is man's, iato the world, as ic is God's. But, fince nature denies to moft men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities M poffibi.lity of applying themfelves wholly to philofophy, the beft mixture of human affairs that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 418 pages
...a very few the opportunities or poftibility, of applying themfelves wholly to philofophy, the beft mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the...country life. It is, as Columella * calls it, " Res fme dubitatione •Lib. I. ci . s9S ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE " proxima, & quafi confanguinea fapientiae,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 514 pages
...be a hufbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philofopher, from the world ; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. But, fince nature denies to moft men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...nou't !'' I hufbandman, is but a retreat from the city ;to be a philofopher, from the world; n-, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it rs God's.) race nature denies to moll men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but ry few the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city ; to be a philosopher, from the world ; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world,...can make are the employments of a country life.— " We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature ; we are there (alluding to courts and cities)... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city ; to be a philosopher, from the world ; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world,...can make are the employments of a country life.— " We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature ; we are there (alluding to courts and cities)... | |
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