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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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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...life, both of body and soul, in lhat future state, whether in bliss or woe, hath been added. HAMMOND. W @¯9ﷂ ٜ> 'Tl O< u& = Zx^ J?4 S ߋ>\ Bs? u<| y s9 p JE O XO7 > emotions are gradual, and whose life is progressive; as his powers are limited, he must use the means...
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Sunlight and shadow; or, Gleanings from my life-work, Issue 278

John Bartholomew Gough - Temperance - 1881 - 472 pages
...strongest inclinations in the minds of many. I think it is Dr. Johnson who says, " The quality of looking into futurity seems the unavoidable condition of a...motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive." We all are solicitous about events which lie hidden. The mind is not satisfied with objects immediately...
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Sunlight and shadow; or, Gleanings from my life-work, Issue 278

John Bartholomew Gough - Temperance - 1881 - 354 pages
...strongest inclinations in the minds of many. I think it is Dr. Johnson who says, " The quality of looking into futurity seems the unavoidable condition of a being whose motions are guadual, and whose life is progressive." We all are solicitous about events which lie hidden. The mind...
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The Essays of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 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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Select Essays of Dr. Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1889 - 296 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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Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Samuel Johnson - Literary Collections - 1968 - 400 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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When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language ...

James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...of what his kind of thought can do. He resists the truism by affirming what it opposes, human hope: "This quality of looking forward into futurity seems...motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive." Hope in some form is a necessity of life, for a man must "intend first what he performs last; as, by...
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When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language ...

James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...of what his kind of thought can do. He resists the truism by affirming what it opposes, human hope: "This quality of looking forward into futurity seems...condition of a being, whose motions are gradual, and whose Me is progressive." Hope in some form is a necessity of life, for a man must "intend first what he...
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