...it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and fiumours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and nil houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of...

...they li;i'l both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...that the misery of man proceeds not from any single rush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis...

...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...

...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...

...has a sentiment, which I hope I shall be excused for transcribing. ' The freaks, and humours, !>.nd spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.' happiness or misery are illustrated by examples sketched with singular humour and acknowledged fidelity...

...Lock,' 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...women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill nouses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the...

...as they embroil families in difcord, and fill houfes with difquiet, do more to obftrud the happinefs of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." Even Cardan is kinder in his cenfure, by dividing the burthen, where he fays : Omnes enim prwatx injuria...

...succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude.xThe freaks, aud humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they...in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many cenumes^It' has been well observed that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming...

...on an agreeable or disagreeable adjustment of little things which happen every day. ROCHEFOUCAULD. IT has been well observed, that the misery of man...evil, but from small vexations * continually repeated. JOHNSON. Lives of the Poets — Pope. THINGS are to be estimated, not by the importance of their effects,...

...to the Lutrin, scarcely required to be refuted with mock gravity by Dr Johnson, who declares that ' the freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.' Strange to say, the opposite objection has recently been made to a work of which the execution has...