 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...their courses, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection'.' Then stunk and fretted in expiring snuff, And blink'd at JOHNSON with its last poor puff.' BOSWELL.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...their courses, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection*.' Then stunk and fretted in expiring snuff, And blink'd at JOHNSON with its last poor puff.' BOSWELL.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection." As one of the little occasional advantages which he did not disdain to take by his pen, as a man whose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection." As one of the little occasional advantages which he did not disdain to take by his pen, as a man whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingences, your lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight,...degree of skill, is exerted in great and little things, and your lordship may sometimes exercise, on a harmless game, those abilities which have been so happily... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight,...degree of skill, is exerted in great and little things, and your lordship may sometimes exercise, on a harmless game, those abilities which have been so happily... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection." As one of the little occasional advantages which he did not disdain to take by his pen, as a man whose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection." As one of the little occasional advantages which he did not disdain to take by his pen, as a man whose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection." As one of the little occasional advantages which he did not disdain to take by his pen, as a man whose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection." As one of the little occasional advantages which he did not disdain to take by his pen, as a man whose... | |
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Triflers may find or make any thing a trifle ; but since it is the great characteristick of a wise man to see events in their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is... 
