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" ... odd humours of pride, and affectation, and curiosity, as will render him unfit for any great employment. Words being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy to fall in love with a picture... "
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation: In Two Parts. Viz ... - Page 170
by John Ray - 1714 - 389 pages
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The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the Creation

John Ray - 1717 - 434 pages
...to the ftudy of thefe, what is it but Pygmalion s Frenzy, to fall in Love with a Pi&ure or Image c1 As for Oratory, which is the beft skill about Words, that hath by fome wife Men been efteenVd, but a voluntary Art, like to Cookery, which fpoils wholefome Meats, and helps unwholefome,...
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The pretensions of bishop Colenso [in The Pentateuch and book of ..., Page 104

James Robert Page - 1863 - 198 pages
...great employment. \Vords being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy, to fall in love with a picture or image ?" Bishop Colenso, we are sorry to say, does indeed labour under this Pygmalion disease ; for, instead...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion s Honour of Sí Cecilias Day, 1697. best skill about words, that hath by some wise men been esteemed but a voluptuary art, like to cookery,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...great employment. Words being but the images of matter, to be wholly given np to th'e study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy to fall in love with a piclnf j or image. As for oratory, which is the best skill about words, that hath by some v\ise men...
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The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art ..., Volume 2

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 pages
...great employment. Words being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy to fall in love...with a picture or image. As for oratory, which is the best skill about words, that hath by some wise men been esteemed but a voluptuary art, like to cookery,...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 482 pages
...great employment. Words being but the images of matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's frenzy to fall in love...with a picture or image. As for oratory, which is the best skill about words, that hath by some wise men been esteemed but a voluptuary art, like to cookery,...
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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British ...

Susan Scott Parrish - 2012 - 344 pages
...Wisdom of God: "Words being but the Images of Matter, to be wholly given up to the study of these, what is it but Pygmalion's Frenzy, to fall in Love with a Picture or Image?" If words were but the images of matter, Royal Society writers strove to make those images act as if...
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