| 1753 - 646 pages
...Difcere Gf audire & meliori credere non vis. HOR. T is an obfervation of the duke de ft Rochefaucault, that there are many people in the world who would never have been, in love, if they ftrange as this aflertion may appear, there is nothing more certain than that mankind purfue with much... | |
| 1774 - 846 pages
...Rochefocault (whofe maxims in general db more honour to his head than to bis heart) has fomewhere faid, " that there are many people in the world who would...been in love, if they had never heard talk of it." Strange, as this a flirt ion may appear, with regard to love, it may, without much impropriety, be... | |
| Edward Moore - English essays - 1772 - 344 pages
...Difcere & audire & meliori credere nan vis. HOR. IT is an efofervation of the duke de Rochefaucault, " that there are many people in the world " who would...they had " never heard talk of it." As ftrange as this*affertron may appear, there is nothing more certain, than that mankind purfue with much greater... | |
| 1776 - 288 pages
...And with an idiot's ignorance admires. Francis* IT is an obfervation of the Duke de Rochefoucault, " That there are many people in the world who " would...had never " heard talk of it." As ftrange as this affertion may appear, there is nothing more certain than that mankind purfue with much greater ardour... | |
| 1753 - 640 pages
...Difcere & audire Of meliori credere non vis. HOR. T is an obfervation of the duke de Rochefaucault, that there are many people in the world who would...certain than that mankind purfue with much greater ardor what they are talked into an admiration of, than what they are prompted to by thennatural paflions... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 318 pages
...Discere & audire & meliori credere non Vis. HOR. IT is an observation of the duke de Rochefoucault, " That there are many people in the world who would...been in love if they had never heard talk of it." As strange as this assertion may appear, there is nothing more Certain, than that mankind pijrsue v,,ith... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 310 pages
...their whole conduct, and even their desires, by IT is an observation of the duke de Rochefaticault, ' that there are many people in the world who would...been in love if they had never heard talk of it.' As .strange as this assertion may appear, there is nothing more certain, than that mankind pursue with... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 620 pages
...et audire et meliora credere non vis. — HOP. IT is an observation of the Duke de Rochefoucault, ' that there are many people in the world who would...been in love if they had never heard talk of it.' As strange as this assertion may appear, there is nothing more certain, than that mankind pursue with... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 418 pages
...Dicere ct audire et mcliora credere non ris. HOR. IT is an observation of the Duke de Rochefaucault, ' that there are many people in the world who would...been in love if they had never heard talk of it.' As strange as this assertion may appear, there is nothing more certain, than that mankind pursue with... | |
| Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby - English fiction - 1825 - 326 pages
...La Bruyere, or some one of those apophthegm writers, who have shorn truth to the quick, " who could never have been in love, if they had never heard talk of it." And our peer was just the person to whom the remark might be applied. And those very men, who, according... | |
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