 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 sidor
...3. 1750. Paud dignofcere po/ypt Vera buna, atque iUis multum cti'uerfa, remota Erroris nebula, JlTV. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purfue? How void of reafon we our hopes and fears ? DRYDEN. r • ^HE folly of human wifhes and purfuits has alJ. ways been a... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1766 - 558 sidor
...righteoufnefs, and the puniflimcnt of wickednefs unto a future ftate of cxiftence. SECTION XIII. ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life appears ( So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifli, we wifli... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1766 - 572 sidor
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future flate of cxiftence. SECTION SEGTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears 1 What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our... | |
 | 1766 - 768 sidor
...fee Review, yo). xi. p. 501. : Section xiii opens with the following motto, from Dryden's Juvenal : ' Look rou.nd, the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. .How void of realbn are our hopes and fears! What in the conrluftof our life appears So well delign'd, fo luckily... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1770 - 406 sidor
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future ftate of exiftence. SECTION SECTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, wewifh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 288 sidor
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 | 1776 - 296 sidor
...July 12, 1753. — — " Pauci dignofcere poflunt " Vera bona, atque illis multum diverfa."— Juv. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, purfue. IT is a common obfervation, that though happinefs is every man's aim, and though it is generally purfued... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1776 - 654 sidor
...timenttti Aut cupimus ? Quid tarn dextro pede coticipis, ut te Conatus non pceniteat, voiique peratli * ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the progrefs of our life appears So well defign'd, fo dext'roufly begun, But, when we have our wifh, we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 390 sidor
...is but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want belides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK...void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life appears Sr So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we wifh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 sidor
...It is but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want hef:des; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK...world, how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purlue. How void of reafon are' our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life- appear* So So... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
