 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 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." Alas-! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 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...and the clouds of the south. It was the boast of the Stotc philosophy, to make man unshaken by calamity, and unelated by success, incorruptible by pleasure,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 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...and the clouds of the south. It was the boast of the Stoic philosophy, to make man unshaken by calamity, and unelated by success, incorruptible by pleasure,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 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...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 - 1900 - 638 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." ment 1'abondance, et la force, 1'elegance 1 A character in No. 6 was intended et I'harmonie." — Bib.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties or exert his virtues will soon make himself superior secutive ser v" Alas ! it is too certain that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 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...and the clouds of the south. It was the boast of the Stoik philosophy, to make man unshaken by calamity, and unelated by success, incorruptible by pleasure,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...the wind for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. e, he, in a feigned inscription, supposed to have...consequent upon it '. To this supposed prophecy he Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
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This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance, every day is bright ; and every hour is propitious to diligence. He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself... 
