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" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 431
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 3

1750 - 228 pages
...ornaments or dilguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs encumbrances, and to lofe all effcA when they become familiar. To be happy at home, is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defirc...
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...afide the ornaments or dilguiies, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every entcrprife and labour tends, and of which every defire...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...afide the ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all cffedt when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...afide the ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefe incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...afide the ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 2

1801 - 326 pages
...afide the ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire...
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Select British Classics, Volume 6

1803 - 290 pages
...acclamation cannot exhilarate ; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his na<tural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments...ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tertds, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...acclamation cannot exhilirate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions/ and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels, in privacy, to be useful incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate...
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 2

1806 - 346 pages
...acclamation cannot exhilarate ; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments...ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tendsi and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Every man must have found some whose lives',...
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