 We see in all other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure departeth; which showeth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures: and that it was the novelty which pleased, and not the quality ; and therefore we see...  Introduction to Science - Page 225by John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...quality : and therefore we see, that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction...appetite are perpetually interchangeable ; and therefore appeareth to be good in itself simply, without fallacy or accident. Neither is that pleasure of small... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...quality : and therefore we see, that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction...appetite are perpetually interchangeable ; and therefore appeareth to be good in itself simply, without fallacy or accident. Neither is that pleasure of small... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...consequence, the pleasures of the intellect, or understanding, exceed the pleasures of the affections ? We se& in all other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure departeth ; which sheweth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures ; and that it was the novelty... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Learning and scholarship - 1820 - 200 pages
...pleasures: and therefore we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy*. But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction...appetite are perpetually interchangeable ; and therefore appeareth to be good in itself simply without fallacy or accident. Neither is that pleasure of small... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...knowledge. " For the pleasure and delight of knowledge, (he says,) it far surpasseth all other in nature. We see in all other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure departeth, which sheweth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures : and that it was the novelty... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...knowledge. . " For the pleasure and delight of knowledge, (he says,) it far surpasseth all other in nature. We see in all other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure departeth, which sheweth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures : and that it was the novelty... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...quality : and therefore we see, that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy : but of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable." He saw, that as the love of excelling has a tendency to generate bad passions, the love of excellence... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...consequence, the pleasures of the intellect, or understanding, exceed the pleasures of the affections ? We see in all other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure departeth ; which sheweth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures ; and that it was the novelty... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...by Wats : " Francis Lord Verulam consulted thus." Another specimen : Advancement of Learning. — " We see in all other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used their verdure departeth ; which sheweth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures, and that it was the novelty... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...consequence, the pleasures of the intellect, or understanding, exceed the pleasures of the affections ? We see in all other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure departeth ; which sheweth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures ; and that it was the novelty... | |
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