 The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just and amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern of him who covets...  Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking - Page 241by Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other. — Burton. MCCCCVII. The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent,...the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other. — Burton. MCCCCVIL The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent,...the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840 - 476 pages
...and pains are requir'd, and time to cultivate a natural genius, ever so apt or forward. //. p. ;401. The taste of beauty and the relish of what is decent...the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. III. p. 162. "Tis no merely what we call principle, but a taste, which governs men. III. p. 177. Thus... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Cf)e (ffientletttan,— Shaftesbury. T^HE taste of Beauty, and the relish of what is decent,...the character of the Gentleman and the Philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other. — Burton. MCCCCVII. The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent,...the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 pages
...Take him all in two words, he is a man, and a Christian." "The taste of Beauty," says Shaftesbury, "and the relish of what is decent, just, and amiable,...the character of the Gentleman and the Philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...a little scrap of paper, and each mako out his list. Thackeray, GENTLEMAN— Qualifications of the. The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent,...amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman. SAuflesbttry. What is it to be a gentleman ? It is to be honest, to bo gentle, to bo generous, to be... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 372 pages
...this distinguished man is to be born, he must run through a long series of «ducatio n." — Steele. " The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent,...amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman." — Shaflcstury. g Sargant. "As а тад's salutation, so is the total of his character: in^ nothing... | |
 | Charles Patrick Fox - 1871 - 292 pages
...offspring of a kindly heart. Shaftesbury once wrote that " the taste for beauty and the relish for what is decent, just and amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher ; and the study of such a taste or relish will ever be the great employment and concern of him who... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 382 pages
...different from that which falls to the lot of the modern tourist. SHAFTESBURY''S ' UHARACTERISTICS? 211 In Italy he learnt to have a taste, and his writings...gentleman and the philosopher.' The person who has p 2 thoroughly learnt this lesson is called, in his oldfashioned dialect, the ' virtuoso ; ' and the... | |
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