 Considering what short-lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure ? I dare not pursue this theme; perhaps I have already said too much, but I depend upon the true knowledge you have of my heart. I don't...  The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - עמוד 58מאת Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 דפים
...to which they could never attain. " Considering what short-lived weak animals men are," she adds, " is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?" And lest any one should mistake her after all, she subjoins, " but I allow you to laugh at me for my... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 446 דפים
...to which they could never attain. " Considering what short-lived weak animals men are," she adds, " is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure ?" And lest any one should mistake her after all, she subjoins, " but I allow you to laugh at me for... | |
 | 1834 - 602 דפים
...excellence. " Considering," she say», in one of her letters from Constantinople, " what shortlived, weak animals, men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of prêtent pleasure !" and she afterwards adds, " I allow you to laugh at me for my sensual declaration... | |
 | Woman - 1840 - 806 דפים
...reap the fruit of our labours. Considering what short-lived weak animals men are, is there anything so beneficial as the study of present pleasure ? I...perhaps I have already said too much ; but I depend on the knowledge you have of my heart." Her letter to the Countess of Mar, dated Aclrianople, April... | |
 | 1842 - 352 דפים
...science to which they could never attain. " Considering what short-lived weak animals men are," she adds, "is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure ?" And lest any one should mistake her after all, she subjoins, " but I allow you to laugh at me for... | |
 | Clemens Klöpper - 1881 - 508 דפים
...written, and of those ages to which I bequeath it. I relied on his promise. I depend upon your word. I dare not pursue this theme; perhaps I have already...depend upon the true knowledge you have of my heart (Montague). How shall they credit a poor unlearned virgin (Shak.)? Gross falsehoods, pronounced with... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 512 דפים
...health. We die or grow old before we can reap the fruit of our labors. Considering what short-lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial...you have of my heart. I don't expect from you the inspired railleries I should suffer from another in answer to this letter. You know how to divide the... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 396 דפים
...old before we can reap the fruit of our labors. Considering what short-lived, weak animals men arc, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present...pleasure ? I dare not pursue this theme ; perhaps 1 have already said too much, but I depend upon the true knowledge you have of my heart. I don't expect... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 672 דפים
...cannot persuade people to set that value upon it we do ourselves. . . . Considering what short-lived weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial...pleasure ? I dare not pursue this theme ; perhaps I have-already said too much, but I depend upon the true knowledge you have of my heart. I don't expect... | |
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