 One of the great arts of escaping superfluous uneasiness, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security,...  The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Page 151752Full view - About this book
 | Giuseppe Baretti - English language - 1778 - 470 pages
...our own confcience. One of the greateft arts of efcaping fuperfluous uneafineis, is-to free our mind from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blefllngs of life are more bountifully betìowed, or with imaginary ftates of delight .and fecurity... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...will always yield to the remedies of realbn. One of the great arts of efcaping fuperfluous uneafmei's is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the bleflings of life are more bountifully beftowed, or with imaginary ftates of delight and iecurity,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...enjoymentS, will always yield to the remedies of reafon. One of the great arts of efcaping fuperfluous uneafmefs, is to free our minds from the habit of...perhaps unattainable by mortals. Few are placed in a/ituation fo gloomy and diftrefsful, as not to fee every day beings yet more forlorn and miferable,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 422 pages
...will always yield to the remedies of reafon. One of the great arts of efcaping fuperfluous uncafinefs, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the the bleflings of life are more bountifully beftowed, or with imaginary ftates of delight and fecurity,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...will always yield to the remedies of reason. One of the great arts of escaping superfluous uneasiness, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 268 pages
...will always yield to the remedies of reason. One of the great arts of escaping superfluous uneasiness, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bi stowed, or with imaginary states of delight and secinity,... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...will always yield to the remedies of reason. One of the great arts of escaping superfluous uneasiness, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...will always yield to the remedies of reason. One of the great arts of escaping superfluous uneasiness, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security,... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...residence. " One of the great arts to escape superfluous uneasiness, (sayg a celebrated writer,) " is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bettowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 420 pages
...will always yield to the remedies of reason. One of the great arts of escaping superfluous uneasiness, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security,... | |
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