| John Walker - 1822 - 404 pagina’s
...from age to age to our own days. Life consists, not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures. Johnson. A man l)as frequent... | |
| John Walker - 1823 - 406 pagina’s
...from age to age to our own days. Life consists, not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures. Johnson. A man has frequent... | |
| Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 pagina’s
...inhabitants of a large city. ' •" " The manners of a people," says Dr. Johnson) " are not to be found in the schools of learning;, or the palaces of greatness,...national character is obscured or obliterated by travel orinstruction, by vanity or philosophy. Nor is public happiness to be- estimated by the assemblies... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 444 pagina’s
...true state of every nation is the state of common life. The manners of a people are not to be found in the schools of learning:, or the palaces of greatness, where the national character it obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity : nor is publick happiness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 pagina’s
...contempt. But it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniencies, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1825 - 510 pagina’s
...But — "it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pagina’s
...contempt. But it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniencies, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 pagina’s
...contempt. But it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in...with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, hi the removal of small inconvenicncies, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pagina’s
...contempt. But it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in...with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, iu the removal of small inconveniencies, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 602 pagina’s
...contempt. But it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in...compliance with necessities, in the performance of ilaily duties, in the removal of small iuconvem'eticies, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and... | |
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