 | English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...to pursue a track so smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems...motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive : as hi* powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
 | Richard Graves - English poetry - 1805 - 204 pages
...sentences, particularly in the Rambler, has been considered by many, as the chief blemish of his fty'.e. " This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems...progressive. As by the continual advances from this ftage of exigence, he is perpetually varying the horizon of his prospects, he muft always discover new motives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 380 pages
...to pursue a track so smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity seems...motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive ; as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...so flowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking fofward into futurity seems the unavoidable condition of a...'motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive : as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 376 pages
...attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity seems jthe unavoidable condition of a being, whose motions 'are gradual, and whose life is progressive : as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1809 - 352 pages
...than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into fulurity seems the unavoidable condition of a being, whose...motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive; ashis powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...pursue a track so smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider Whether it leads to truth, ; This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems...motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive : as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...to pursue a track so smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems...motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive : as his powens are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...to pursue a track so smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider^ whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems...motions 'are gradual, and whose life is progressive : as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...to pursue a track so smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems...motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive: as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he... | |
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This quality of looking forward into futurity seems the unavoidable condition of a being whose motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive ; as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he performs... 
