 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 sidor
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new ; history is full of the errors of states and princes. " Look round the habitable world, — how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! " Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 sidor
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new: history is full of the errors of states and princes. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue !" Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 sidor
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new : history is full of the errors of states and princes. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue !" Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 sidor
...Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. i. This is the porcelain clay of human kind.* Don Sebastian. Acti.Sc. i. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. Translation of Juvenal's ioth Satire. Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 sidor
...pauci dignoscere possunt Yera bona, atquo illis multum di versa, reinota Erroris nebula Juv. Sat. x. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing, it pursue. DKYDEN. IN my last Saturday's paper1 I laid down some thoughts upon in general, and shall here... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sidor
...with a single hair.1 Persius. Satire v. Line 246. 1 Cf. Pope, The Rape of the Loch, Canto ii. Line 27. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! Juvenal. Satire x. Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 sidor
...pauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota Erroris nebula. Juv. Sat. x. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. DRYDEN. In my last Saturday's paper 1 I laid down some thoughts upon devotion in general, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 sidor
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new : history is full of the errors of states and princes. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue 1" Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sidor
...What's good doth open to th' inquirers stand, And itself offers to th' accepting hand. SIR J. DENHAM. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. DRYDEN. Though sparing of his grace, to mischief bent, He seldom does a good with good intent.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 sidor
...sunt a Gadibus usque Auroram et Gangen, pauci dinoscere prosunt Vera bona, etc. — JDV. 10. 1, 2. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. — DRYDEN'S Translation. The wonders of each region view From frozen Lapland to Peru. —... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
