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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... "
The Triflers: To which are Added The Rout, Or a Sketch of Modern Manners ... - Page 72
by Richard Graves - 1806 - 177 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 524 pages
...pursue a track so smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider whe. ther 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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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...consider whether it leads to truth, ' -.,!'! " This quality of looking forward into futurity, seema the unavoidable condition of a being, whose motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive: as his powers ore limited , he must use means tor the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 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 powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 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 powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 472 pages
...smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. NO. I. THE RAMBLER. 9 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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The British Essayists: Rambler

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...to pursue a tract 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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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 15-16

British essayists - 1823 - 748 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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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 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.../unavoidable condition of a being, whose motions are gra' dual, and whose life is progressive : as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment...
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Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...to pursue a track so smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. his head, and saw the lake brightened by the setting...sun. " Such," said Seged, sighing, " is the longes arc gradual, and whose life is progressive : as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment...
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