 ... to obviate ; for such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labour and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we...  The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson... - Page 100by Samuel Johnson - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Quotations - 1873 - 530 pages
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 | James Comper Gray - 1873 - 406 pages
...Cent. her sins o Ge. ¡т. 10 ; x¡. в; Ps. lili!. 2, 3; Je. И. 35. " Such are the vicissitudes ol the world, through all its parts, that day and night,...we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit." — Johnton. •'Defeated, but not dismayed, — crushed to the earth, but not humiliated, — he seemed... | |
 | Clemens Klöpper - English language - 1881 - 508 pages
...The variation of language. The variations in the heavens. The vicissitudes of fortune or the seasons. Such are the vicissitudes of the world through all its parts, that day and night, lahour and rest, hurry and retirement endear each other (Bambler). This man had, after many vicissitudes... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...like plants, latent properties, which Chance brings to light. Cljance. — Terence. r. — Johnson. SUCH are the Vicissitudes of the World, through all...we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit. Cl)a0S. — Shakespeare. LET Order die, And let this World no longer be a stage, To feed contention... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 562 pages
...his desire, that solitude and quiet owe their pleasures to those miseries which he was so studious to obviate ; for such are the vicissitudes of the world through all its parts that day and night, labor and rest, converse and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind... | |
 | Kindergarten - 1911 - 492 pages
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 | Walter Debenham Sweeting, John Taylor - Northampton (England) - 1890 - 794 pages
...produce a piece of patchwork, which may be useful, and not without a charm of its own. PART XXXIX. We desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated :...we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit. JOHNSON. Commend me to the man who has taken a delight in conversing with antiquity ; for, whether... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...-with climes, Tenets with booits and principles with times. Pope. CHANGES. KEEP THE MIND IN ACTION. Such are the vicissitudes of the World, through all...; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated ; wo desire something else and begin a new pursuit. Johnson. NECESSARY. The same stale viands served... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1894 - 544 pages
...his desire, that solitude and quiet owe their pleasures to those miseries which he was so studious to obviate ; for such are the vicissitudes of the world through all its parts that day and night, labor and rest, converse and retirement, endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind... | |
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