 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...championship for his irregular friend. Gbe Xite of Savafle IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendor of their rank, or the extent of their ca5 pacity, have... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 páginas
...was a sad affair. " It has been observed in all ages," he writes in his Life of Savage, " that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness and that those whom the splendour of their rank or the extent of their capacity have placed... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 páginas
...that he here echoed a Juvenalian original: see plate 2. It has been observed in all Ages, that the Advantages of Nature or of Fortune have contributed very little to the Promotion of Happiness; and that those whom the Splendor of their Rank, or the Extent of their Capacity, have placed... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 páginas
...ending frame a "mournful Narrative" on a perennial theme: "It has been observed in all Ages, that the Advantages of Nature or of Fortune have contributed very little to the Promotion of Happiness."105 Great expectations lead to great disappointments. Writing immediately after Savage's... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 páginas
...place, and position, that separates them from his life. [1] It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank or the extent of their capacity have placed... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - 244 páginas
...ending."30 It ends, in fact, and begins like a moral essay: It has been observed in all Ages, that the Advantages of Nature or of Fortune have contributed very little to the Promotion of Happiness. . . . ...Negligence and Irregularity, long continued, will make Knowledge useless, Wit ridiculous,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 páginas
...Disguise can gratify no longer than it deceives. SAVAGE.* IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those, whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have... | |
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IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of... 
