 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...human being acknowledges and forgets. It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of...of the wind, than the strokes of the oar ; and many knowledge in bulky volumes, and our girls forsake their samplers to teach kingdoms wisdom, it inav... | |
 | 1803 - 196 pages
...human being acknowledges and forgets. It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us...passage while they lie waiting for the gale that is to waft them to their wish. It will naturally be suspected that the Idler has lately suffered from disappointment,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
....reminded of its shortness. Idler, vol. 2, y. 28z. He that embarks in the voyage of life, will tilways wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind, than the strokes of the oar ; and many founder in their passage while they lie waiting for the gale, Ibid, vol. i, p. 7. A minute analysis of life at... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 410 pages
...human being acknowledges and forgets. It is generally known, that he who expeets much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us...passage, while they lie waiting for the gale that is to waft them to their wish. It will naturally be suspected that the Idler has lately suffered some disappointment,... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 276 pages
...first, and it is presumed that the sentence might be greatly improved by the following alteration : " He that embarks in the voyage of life will " always...impulse of " the wind than the strokes of the oar, and to gain " advantage by the exertions of others, rather than *' by those of his own." This rule may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...peevish exclamation. He that embarks in the voyage of life, will always wish to advance rather by tae impulse of the wind, than the strokes of the oar ;...passage, while they lie waiting for the gale that is to waft them to their wish. It will naturally be suspected that the Idler has lately suffered some disappointment,... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 282 pages
...Johnson's seema $o be faulty for the same reason : " He that embarks in the voyage of life will al" ways wish to advance rather by the impulse of the " wind than the stroke of the oar, and many founder " in their passage while they lie waiting for the « gale." Here... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...kuman being acknowledges and forgets. It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us...passage, while they lie waiting for the gale that is to waft them to their wish. It will naturally be suspected that the Idler has lately suffered some disappointment,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...human being acknowledges and forgets. It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us...passage, while they lie waiting for the gale that is to waft them to their wish. It will naturally be suspected that the Idler has lately suffered some disappointment,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...human being acknowledges and forgets. It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us...passage, while they lie waiting for the gale that is to waft them to their wish. It will naturally be suspected that the Idler has lately suffered some disappointment,... | |
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He that embarks in the voyage of life, will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind, than the strokes of the oar; and many founder in the passage, while they lie waiting for the gale that is 
