Turk, stretched at his ease in his pavilion on the banks of the Bosphorus, glides down the stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination the whole... Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 2351807Full view - About this book
| Thomas Thornton - 1807 - 484 pages
...stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination...enriched by the arts, and improved by the taste, of the industrious Europeans. The luxuries of a Turkish life would sink however in the estimation of most... | |
| Thomas Thornton - 1807 - 502 pages
...pavillion on the banks ef mc-ms"1"6" the Bosphorus, glides down the stream of existence without reflec316 out before him whatever can excite or gratify the...enriched by the arts, and improved by the taste, of the industrious Europeans. The luxuries of a Turkish lire would sink however in the estimation of most... | |
| Thomas Thornton - 1809 - 508 pages
...stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination...enriched by the arts, and improved by the taste, of industrious Europeans. The luxuries of a Turkish life \vould sink however in the estimation of most... | |
| Thomas Thornton - 1809 - 520 pages
...stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination...enriched by the arts, and improved by the taste, of industrious Europeans. The luxuries of a Turkish life would sink however in the estimation of most... | |
| 1812 - 560 pages
...stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination...enriched by the arts, and improved by the taste, of the industrious Europeans. The luxuries of a Turkish life would sink, however, in the estimation of most... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1812 - 562 pages
...stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination...enriched by the arts, and improved by the taste, of the industrious Europeans. The luxuries of a Turkish life would sink, however, in the estimation of most... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 364 pages
...stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination...procuring him pleasure. The luxuriance of nature, and the labors of a tributary people spread out before him whatever can excite or gratify the senses ; and... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1854 - 316 pages
...stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination...the whole universe appears occupied in procuring him pleasures. . . . Every custom invites to repose, and every object inspires an indolent voluptuousness.... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1872 - 474 pages
...stream of existence without reflection on the past, and without anxiety for the future. His life is one continued and unvaried reverie. To his imagination...the whole universe appears occupied in procuring him pleasures. . . . Every custom invites to repose, and every object inspires an indolent voluptuousness.... | |
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