 The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Page 154by Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1801 - 140 pages
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. b It has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pages
...vanity of women, as they embroil (.'rallies in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do m ire 10 obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of tho clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, that the misery <if man proceeds not from... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from publick gratitude. The ~N freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women,...that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crufh of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...panegyric, who is capable of reproaching a 'criminal in the hands of the executioner. Life of Savage. The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. Life of Pop*. That misery docs not make all virtuous, experience too certainly informs us; but it is... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 406 pages
...l.fc in a year, than the ambition of the olergy in many rcntuiies. It has been well observed, that he misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexatious ly repeat«d." state, and so copious are their examples and authorities, that perhaps few... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1809 - 382 pages
...Look," and Boileau's "Lutrin," has a sentiment which I hope I shall be excused for transcribing. " The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition ef the clergy in many centuries. It has been well... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from publick gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis likewise, that the machinery is superfluous ; that, by all the bustle of preternatural... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved [most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis likewise, that the machinery is superfluous ; that, by all the bustle of preternatural... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis likewise, that the machinery is superfluous; that, by all the bustle of preternatural... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from publick gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis likewise, that the machinery is superfluous ; that, by all the bustle of preternatural... | |
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