 The utmost excellence at which humanity can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit of virtue, without regard to present dangers or advantage; a continual reference of every action to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice; and...  The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Page 131752Full view - About this book
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...a continual reference of every aftion to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlalHng iuftice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perfeverancc only can obtain. Hut that pride which many, who prefume to boaft of generous fentiments,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...virtue, without regard to prefent dangers or advantage; a continual reference of every :.> ti. .1 , to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlafting juftice; and an unvaried tie- vation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perftverance only can obtain. But that pride... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...continual reference of every action to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice ; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain. But that pride which many, who presume to boast of generous sentiments,... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pages
...continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain. But that pride which many, who presume to boast of generous sentiments,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice ; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain. But that pride which many, who presume to boast of generous sentiments,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice ; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain. But that pride which many, who presume to boast of generous sentiments,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 278 pages
...continual reference of every action to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain. But that pride which many, who presume to boast of generous sentiments,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain. But that pride which many, who presume to boast of generous sentiments,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain. But that pride which many, who presume to boast of generous sentiments,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain. But that pride which many, who presume to boast of generous sentiments,... | |
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