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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Page 290
1801
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 pages
...acquire, or his benevolence with the good he fhall confer. But in the night the flues are overcaft, the temper of the air is changed, he wakes in languor,...and diftraction, and has no longer any wifh but for cafe, nor any attention but to mifery. It may be faid that difeafe generally begins that equality which...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pages
...allot us, and with elevations to which we are never expected to rife. Idler, v. z, p. 203. D1SDISEASE. IT may be faid that difeafe generally begins that...another, are very little perceived in the gloom of a fick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or inftruclion from the wife,...
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The Rambler: In Four Volumes, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 340 pages
...fkies are overcaft, the temper of the air is changed, he wakes in languor, impatience, and diftra&ion, and has no longer any wifh but for eafe, nor any....equality which death completes ; the diftinctions .which let one man fo much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a fick chamber, where it...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...benevolence with the good he fliall confer. But in the night the flues are overcaft, the temper ofthe air is changed, he wakes in languor, impatience, and diftraction, and has no longer any wifli but foreafe, nor any attention but to mifcry. It may be hid that difeafe generally begins that...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...acquire, or his benevolence with the good he fhall confer. But in the night the fkies are overcaft, the temper of the air is changed, he wakes in languor,...another are very little perceived in the gloom of a (Ick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or inftruction from the wife...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...acquire, or his benevolence with the good he fhaU confer. But in the night the fkies are oyercaft, the temper of the air is changed, he wakes in languor,...and has no longer any • wifh but for eafe, nor any atiention but to mifery. It may be faifj that difeaf? generally begins that equality which death completes...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...acquire, or his benevolence with the good he fhall confer. But in the night the fkies are overcaft, the temper of the air is changed, he wakes in languor,...nor any attention but to mifery. It may be faid that difcafe generally begins that equality which death completes ; the diftin&ions which fet one man fo...
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Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical ..., Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1794 - 568 pages
...the homage yielded by the heart, to Him, who is at once the greateft and bell of Beings. DISEASE. TT may be faid that difeafe generally begins that •"•...death completes. The diftinctions which fet one man fo far above another, are very little perceived in the gloom of a fick chamber; where it will be in vain...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 6

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...said, generally begins that equality, which death completes. The distinctions which set one man so much above another, are very little perceived, in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expedt entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...acquire, or his benevolence with the good he fhall confer. But in the night the ikies are overcaft, the temper of the air is changed, he wakes in languor,...generally begins that equality which death completes ; the diftinclions which fet one man fo much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a fick...
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