 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...considerations : I shall examine the several sources from whence these pleasures are derived, in my next paper. Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not...as history, poetry, and contemplations of nature. plained at large, he may find it in Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. Fields of corn form a... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not...the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not...the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 pages
...grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his essay upon health, has not...the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1824 - 510 pages
...pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason, Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has uot thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem,...•where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not...the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. SPECTATOR, No. 412. I shall first consider those pleasures... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...follow the prescriptions of those whose age, station, or experience, authorize them to prescribe ; ' Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not...dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions.' ADDISOX. God has ordained all things for our good ; it rests with ourselves to submit to his ordinances... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 pages
...these pleasures are derived, in ray next paper. Sir Francis Bacon, in bis Essay upon Health, has Hot thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem,...dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions; and advise-1 him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as history,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...considerations : I shall examine the several sources from whence these pleasures are derived, in my next paper. Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health'* has not thought it improper to prescribe to bis reader a poem, or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 268 pages
...considerations : I shall examine the several sources from whence these pleasures are derived, in my next paper. Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not...as history, poetry, and contemplations of nature. If the English reader would see the notion explained at large, he may find it in Locke's Essay on the... | |
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... poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason... 
