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" ... such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labour and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated: we desire... "
The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Page 35
1801
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 pages
...their plcafures to thofe miferies, which he was fo ftudious to obviate ; for fuch are the viciffitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and...elfe, and begin a new purfuit. If he had proceeded in hii project, and fixed his habitation in the moft delightful part of the new world, it may be doubted,...
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...their pleafures to thofe miferies, which he was fo ftudious to obviate ; for fuch are the viciilkudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labour and reft, converfe and retirement, endear each other ; fuch are the changes that keep the mind in adlion ; we...
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The Rambler: In Four Volumes, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 340 pages
...their pleafures to thofe miferies, which he was Ib ftudious to obviate ; for luch are the viciffitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and...in action ; we defire, we purfue, we obtain, we are latiated ; we defire fomething elfe, and begin a new purfuit. If he had proceeded in his project, and...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...thofe miferie* to ftudioos to obviate: for fiich are the »iciffitudes of the world, throtigh all it's parts, that day and night, labour and reft, hurry...other; fuch are the changes that keep the mind in aftion; we defire, we purfue, we obtain, we are fatiated; we defire fomething elfe, and begin a new...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...their pleafures to thole miferies, which he was fo fludious to obviate; for fuch are the viciffitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and...we defire fomething elfe, and begin a new purfuit. Jf he had proceeded in his project, and fixed his habitation in the moft delightful part of the new...
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse

1787 - 430 pages
...make him a penfioner to others, and it is turning a bounty into a reward. SUCH are the viciffitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and...other ; fuch are the changes that keep the mind in aftion; we defire, we.purfue, we obtain-, we are fatisficd, we defire fomething elfe, and begin a new...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...of defire, that folitude and quiet owe their pleafures to thofe miferies, which he was Jo fhidioua to obviate; for fuch are the viciflitudes of the world,...and reft, hurry and retirement, endear each other; luch are the changes that keep the mind in actjon ; we defire, we purfue, we obtain, we are fatiated...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...which he was fo ihidious to obviate : for fuch are the viciffitudes of tUe world, through all it's parts, that day and night, labour and 'reft, hurry and retirement, endear each other i fuch are die changes thatkeep the mind in aftion ; we delire, wt purfue, we obtain, we are fitiated...
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Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the ..., Volume 2

Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...obfcure retreat, with no other confolation than that of lettm and philofophy. " If," fays Dr. JOHNSON, " he had proceeded in his project, and fixed his habitation in the moft delightful part of the nevf world, It rhay be doubted whether his diftance from the vatiftfa of life would have enabled him...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...their pleafures to thofe miferies, which he was fo ftudious to obviate : for fuch are the viciffitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and...defire, we purfue, we obtain, we are fatiated : we delire fomething clfe, and begin a, new purfuit. If he had proceeded in his projedr,, and fixed hi^...
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