 Thus a habit is formed — a habit at first, perhaps, of limited indulgence — but a habit that is continually found more formidable and more encroaching. The appetite becomes too keen to be denied ; and in proportion as it is more urgent, grows less...  An Enquiry Into the Duties of the Female Sex - Page 213by Thomas Gisborne - 1801 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...becomes too keen to be denied ; and in proportion as it is more urgent, grows lefs nice and feleft in its fare. What would formerly have given offence,...palate is vitiated or made dull. The produce of the book -club, -and the contents of the circulating library, are Devoured with indifcriminate and infatiable... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1797 - 514 pages
...lefs nice and feleft in its fare. What would formerly have given ofience, now gives none. The palate vitiated or made dull. The produce of the book-club,...circulating library, are devoured with indifcriminate and tnfatiable avidity. "Hence the mind is fecretly corrupted. Let it be obferved too, that in exact correfpondence... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1797 - 506 pages
...becomes too keen to be denied ; and in proportion as it is more urgent,, grows lefs nice and fclcct in its fare. What would formerly have given offence, now gives none. The palate vitiated or made dull. The produce of the book-club, and the contents of the circulating library, are... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...becomes too keen to be denied; and in proportion as it is more grgent, grows less nice and. select in its fare. What would formerly have given offence,...vitiated or made dull. The produce of the book-club, ajid the contents of the circulating library, are devoured with indiscriminate and insatiable ayidiry.... | |
 | 1824 - 448 pages
...appetite becomes too keen to be denied: and in proportion as it is more urgent, grows less nice and select in its fare. What would formerly have given offence...gives none. The. palate is vitiated or made dulL The pror duce of the book-club, and the contents of the circulating library, are devoured with indiscriminate... | |
 | Timothy East - Christian life - 1858 - 628 pages
...appetite becomes too keen to be denied; and in proportion as it is more urgent, grows less nice and select in its fare. What would formerly have given offence...contents of the circulating library, are devoured with indiscriminate and insatiable avidity. Hence, the mind is secretly corrupted. Let it be observed too,... | |
 | 1858 - 628 pages
...becomes too keen to be denied ; and in proportion as it is more urgent, grows less nice and select in its fare. What would formerly have given offence...contents of the circulating library, are devoured with indiscriminate and insatiable avidity. Hence, the mind is secretly corrupted. Let it be observed too,... | |
 | Sonia Hofkosh - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 212 pages
..."appetite" for reading romances, which, "as it is more urgent, grows less nice and select in its fare": "The produce of the book-club, and the contents of the circulating library are devoured with indiscriminant and insatiable avidity." This "passion for reading novels" is so signif1cant in Gisborne's... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Fiction - 2000 - 428 pages
...keen to be denied; and in proportion as it is more urgent, grows less nice and select in its fare. ...The produce of the book-club, and the contents of the circulating library are devoured with indiscriminate and insatiable avidity" (Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex, 1797, 215-17) 84... | |
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