 | Index - 1754 - 180 pagini
...Mourning Coaches. A good Grace is to the Body, what good Senfe is to the Mind. Gravity is a myfterious Carriage of the Body, invented to cover the Defects of the Mind. ' If a Man walks lame, he is pitied; if he dances lame, he is laugh'd at: The one is unavoidable, the... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1783 - 166 pagini
...mind, we certainly paytoo dear for all that they can beftow. GRAVITY. ecu i. Gravity is a myfterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind*. * " The Dnke de Rochefoucault's definition of " gravity," fays Sterne, " defcrves to be written in... | |
 | John Feltham - 1799 - 146 pagini
...love, friendship is insipid. XVIII. The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. XIX, Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body^ invented to cover the defects of the mind. — [This definition, Lord Sliaftesbury thought, deserved to be written in letters of gold.] xx. When... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - 610 pagini
...that "a man who is not sometimes a fool, is always one." This reminds one of Rochefoucault's maxim, " Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind." The grave man may choose the description of his character either from the English or the French philosopher.... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1831 - 290 pagini
...incompatible wilh good sense is false. It is more diflictdt to prevent heing governed) than lo govern others. Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind. A goo;! grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind. None are either so happy or so unhappy... | |
 | William Paley - 1839 - 398 pagini
...that "a man who is not sometimes a fool, is always one." This reminds one of Rochefoucault's maxim, "Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind." The grave man may choose the description of his character either from the English or the French philosopher.... | |
 | 1841 - 300 pagini
...with good sense is false. It is more difficult to prevent being governed, ti>£.n tc govern cthsrs. Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the delects of the mind. A good grace is to the body, what good sense ia to the mind. None are either so... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1846 - 828 pagini
...that a man n-ho if not sometimes a fool, is always one, This reminds us of Hocbefoucault's maxim, that gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects cf the mind. The grave man may, therefore, choose the description of his character from the English... | |
 | 1846 - 784 pagini
...a man tt'/io is not sometimes a fool, is always one. This reminds us of Rochcfoucaull's maxim, that gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the delects of the mind. The grave man may, therefore, choose the description of his character from the... | |
 | 1846 - 782 pagini
...that a man who it not sometimes a foot, is always one. This reminds us of Rocbefoucault's maxim, that gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the delects of the mind. The grave man may, therefore, choose the description of his character from the... | |
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Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. 
