| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...to pursue a track so smooth and so ilowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems...the unavoidable condition of a being, whose motions arc gradual, and whose life is progressive: as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...pursue u track во smooth and so flowery, than attentively to consider whether it loads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems the unavoidable condition of a brine, w luise motions arc gradual, and whose life is progressive: as Ins powers are limited, he must... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...o pursue a track so smooth and BO flowery, than attentively to consider whether it leads to truth. This quality of looking forward into futurity, seems...the unavoidable condition of a being, whose motions arc gradual, and wliose life is progressive : as his powers arc limited, he must use means for the... | |
| William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetoric. This quality, of looking forward into futurity, seems...being, whose motions are gradual, and whose life is progresnve. As his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends and intend... | |
| William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetoric. 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 performs... | |
| William Spalding - 1870 - 482 pages
...clearly conceived, and stated with great vigour and vivacity of expression. Among the other dition 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... | |
| William Spalding - English literature - 1872 - 482 pages
...clearly conceived, and stated with great vigour and vivacity of expression. Among the other dition 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, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...hourly assaulted, and in time set themselves above the reach of extravagance and folly. FUTURITY. THE quality of looking forward into futurity seems the...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 Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...life, both of body and son], in that future state, whether in bliss or woe, hnth been added. HAMMOND. This quality of looking forward into futurity seems the unavoidable condition of a being whose emotions are gradual, and whose life is progressive ; as his powers are limited, he must use the means... | |
| William Spalding - English literature - 1877 - 444 pages
...ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetoric. 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 if his ends and intend first what be performs... | |
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