Epicures

Nature kept here her Court, to entertain the Epicures of the Universe.

Exilius 2008

[759] Anticyras melior sorbere meracas; Epicures, Atheists,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And what shall we except that have such multitudes of Achans, church robbers, simoniacal patrons, &c., how can they hope to flourish, that neglect divine duties, that live most part like Epicures?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Epicures and atheists are of the same mind in general, because they never saw them.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Goethe sings in one of his divine epigrams: — “Epicures vaunting their taste, entitle me vulgar and savage, Give them their Brussels-sprouts, but I am contented with cabbage.”

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

If then Epicures should come and say that the good must be in the body; in this case also many words become necessary, and we must be taught what is the leading principle in us, and the fundamental and the substantial; and as it is not probable that the good of a snail is in the shell, is it probable that the good of a man is in the body?

The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

So that it was generally in dread among vs, such is the slownes of our nation, for the most part of vs rather ioy at home like Epicures to sit and carpe at other mens hassardes, our selues not daring to giue any attempt.

The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003

So that it was generally in dread among vs, such is the slownes of our nation, for the most part of vs rather ioy at home like Epicures to sit and carpe at other mens hassardes, our selues not daring to giue any attempt.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Epicures of that kind who knew that Gilberte was not Forcheville nor Mme de Cambremer

Time Regained 2003

So that it was generally in dread among vs, such is the slownes of our nation, for the most part of vs rather ioy at home like Epicures to sit and carpe at other mens hassardes, our selues not daring to giue any attempt.

The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003