 These pleasures, by repetition, lose their relish. It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs by which we perceive pleasure are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. There is hardly any...  The Young Man's Own Book - Página 2571833 - 320 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1834 - 410 páginas
...for which we know no remedy, that the organs by which we receive pleasure are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the- same way. There...does not become indifferent as it grows habitual." Paley has here stated an important fact ; but if there be nothing but pleasure, how wretched must be... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 628 páginas
...There a hardly any one who has not found the (Sffi-rence between a gratification, when new, and wfeen familiar ; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. 3dly, The eagerness lor high and intense dehgiu takes away the relish from all others; and as such delights fall rarely... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 626 páginas
...new, and when familiar ; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. Sdly, The eagerness for high and intense delights takes away the relish from all others ; and tt such delights fall rarely in our way, the greater part of our time becomes, from this cause, empty... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1847 - 528 páginas
...for which we know no remedy, 63 that the organs by which we receive pleasure are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. There...does not become indifferent as it grows habitual." Paley has here stated an important fact ; but if there be nothing but pleasure, how wretched must be... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1847 - 524 páginas
...for which we know no remedy, that the organs by which we receive pleasure are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. There...any one who has not found the difference between a grati6cation when new, and when familiar ; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it... | |
 | William Paley - 1850 - 628 páginas
...being frequently exercised in the same way. There a hardly any one who has not found the diJlcrence between a gratification, when new, and when familiar; or any pleasure which does not btrnme indifferent as it grows habitual. IJIy, The eagerness tor high and intense deL^ht* takes away... | |
 | William Paley - 1851 - 766 páginas
...for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed _ _ _ _ »-•- H*>' ness for high and intense delights takes away the relish from all others ; and as such... | |
 | William Paley, Richard Whately - 1859 - 264 páginas
...for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. There...does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. 3rdly, The eagerness for high and intense delights takes away the relish from all others: and as such... | |
 | Robert Woodward Barnwell - 1859 - 102 páginas
...for which we know no remedy, that the organs by which we perceive pleasure are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. There...does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. 3d, The eagerness for high and intense delights takes away the relish from all others ; and as such... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1862 - 320 páginas
...for which we know no remedy, that the organs by which we receive pleasure are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. There...between a gratification when new and when familiar, nor any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual." It is, on the other hand,... | |
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