| James Beattie - 1776 - 504 pages
...conviction." Treati/e of Human Nature, vol. ip 474. f " I dine, I play a game at back-gammon, I con" verfe, and am merry with my friends; and when, " after three or four hours amufement, 1 would return " to thefe fpeculations, they appear fo cold, fo ftrained, *• and fo ridiculous,... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1777 - 66 pages
...differently ; very much fo, indeed. " I dine, fays he, I " play a game at back-gammon, " I converfe, and am merry " with my friends ; and when, " after three or four hours " amufement, I would return " to thefe fpeculations, they " appear fo cold, fojlrained, and " fo ridiculous,... | |
| David Hume, Adam Smith - 1777 - 138 pages
...differently ; very much fo, indeed. " I dine, fays he, I " play a game at back-gammon, " I converfe, and am merry " with my friends ; and when, '' after three or four hours " amufement, I would return " to thefe fpeculations, they " appear fo cold, fojirained, and " fo ridiculous,... | |
| George Horne - 1786 - 380 pages
...differently; very much Co, indeed. ** I dine, fays he, I play a " game at back-gammon, I converfe, " and am merry with my friends ; and " when, after three or four hours " amufement, I would return to thefe " fpeculations, they appear fo cold, ** fo jlrained, and fo ridiculous,... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...purpose, and cures me " of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent 4' of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four is the less merit in his conviction and condemnation. However, these orations have all a very great... | |
| James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 pages
...his philosophical conviction." Treatise of Human Nature, vol. lp 474. t " I dine, I play a game at back-gammon, I converse and am " merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours a" musement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so " cold, so strained, and so ridiculous... | |
| Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...the world. But, at other times, he judged very differently. " I dine," says he, " I play a game at backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends;...return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous, that I cannot find ili my heart to enter into them any farther." Now,... | |
| Elizabeth Frank - 1814 - 400 pages
...the world. But, at other times, he judged very differently. " I dine," says he. " I play a game at backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends...return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous, that I cannot find inMny heart to enter into them any farther." Now,... | |
| 1816 - 358 pages
...the world. But, at other times, he judged very differently. " I dine," says he, " I play a game at backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends...; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, J would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous, that I cannot... | |
| James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1831 - 342 pages
...relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon,...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hour's amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
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