| James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...the wind for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 398 pages
...the wind for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...wind for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. — This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." have bid defiance to the ague, the palsy, and all other bodily disorders. Such boasting of the mind... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 508 pages
...wind for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. — This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." have bid defiance to the ague, the palsy, and all other bodily disorders. Such boasting of the mind... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons, and may set at defiance the morning...incorruptible by pleasure, and invulnerable by pain ; these are heights of wisdom which none ever attained, and to which few can aspire ; but there are lower degrees... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons, and may set at defiance the morning...incorruptible by pleasure, and invulnerable by pain ; these are heights of wisdom which none ever attained, and to which few can aspire ; but there are lower degrees... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons, and may set at defiance the morning...the clouds of the south. It "was the boast of the Stoic philosophy, to make man unshaken by calamity, and tmelated by success; incorruptible by pleasure,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...the evening damp, the blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south, It was the boast of the Stoic philosophy to make man unshaken by calamity, and undated...incorruptible by pleasure, and invulnerable by pain ; these are the heights of wisdom which none ever attained, and to which few can aspire ; but there are lower... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...crow with equal tranquillity from the right or left, will yet tali of times and situations proper-ifor intellectual performances, will imagine the fancy...philosophy, to make man unshaken by calamity, and unelated by success, incorruptible by pleasure, and invulnerable by pain ; these are heights of wisdom... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons, and may set at defiance the morning...incorruptible by pleasure, and invulnerable by pain ; these are heights of wisdom which none ever attained, and to which few can aspire; but there are lower degrees... | |
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