Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose WritingsJ. Blackwood, 1875 - 298 páginas |
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... enjoyment of any terrestrial advantage as opposite to a constant and habitual solicitude for future felicity , is undoubtedly just , and delivered by that authority which cannot be disputed ; but in any other sense , is it not like ...
... enjoyment of any terrestrial advantage as opposite to a constant and habitual solicitude for future felicity , is undoubtedly just , and delivered by that authority which cannot be disputed ; but in any other sense , is it not like ...
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... enjoyment ; conquest serves no purpose but that of kindling ambition ; discovery has no effect but of raising expectation ; the gratification of one desire en- courages another ; and after all our labours , studies , and inquiries , we ...
... enjoyment ; conquest serves no purpose but that of kindling ambition ; discovery has no effect but of raising expectation ; the gratification of one desire en- courages another ; and after all our labours , studies , and inquiries , we ...
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... enjoyment of the good before us . Whatever any man ardently desires , he very readily believes that he shall some time attain . He whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases , while he languishes in the spring , expects vigour ...
... enjoyment of the good before us . Whatever any man ardently desires , he very readily believes that he shall some time attain . He whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases , while he languishes in the spring , expects vigour ...
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... enjoyment , that we are always impatient of the present . Attain- ment is followed by neglect , and possession by disgust ; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life ...
... enjoyment , that we are always impatient of the present . Attain- ment is followed by neglect , and possession by disgust ; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life ...
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... enjoyment may be impaired or destroyed by innumerable causes , and that there is no human possession of which the duration is less certain . Those who would gladly pass their days together may be separated by the different course . of ...
... enjoyment may be impaired or destroyed by innumerable causes , and that there is no human possession of which the duration is less certain . Those who would gladly pass their days together may be separated by the different course . of ...
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amusements attain attention calamity censure character common commonly considered conversation CUTHBERT BEDE delight desire diligence Dryden easily easy EDWARD HITCHCOCK endeavour enjoy enjoyment envy equally evil excellence expect fame fancy favour Fcap fear feel felicity flatter folly fortune frequently FROST KING genius GEOFFREY CHAUCER give gratification happiness HENRY WARD BEECHER honour hope hour human HYDROPATHY idleness imagination inclination indulged intellectual Julius Cæsar kind Kind-The knowledge labour learning leisure lives Lord Anson Lovell's Court luxury mankind marriage ment mind misery nature necessary necessity neglect ness never Numerous Illustrations observed opinion ourselves pain pass passion Paternoster Row perpetual pleasing pleasure poet poetry Pope possession praise present pride produce reason riches SAMUEL JOHNSON seldom sentiments Shakespeare sometimes sorrow suffer superaddition superiority things thoughts tion truth vanity vigour virtue WASHINGTON IRVING wish writing young youth