 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...1750. Fauci dignoscere possunt Vera linnn, atque illis, multum diversa, remold Erroris nebula. Juv. • How few Know their own good; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! DRYDEN. 'TpHE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...dignoscere possunt * . Vera bona, atque i'tfis mult-urn diiersa, remold Erroris nebula* Juv. •• a — How few Know their own good; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! DRYDKX. folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...pauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque i/lis multum diversa, remold Erroris nthuld Jvv. Sat. x. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue ? How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant voice ? DRYD.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...1750. -Paun dignoscere possunt Vera dona, atque iltis multum iliversa, rtmotii Error is nebula. Juv. -How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears > DRYEE>'. JL HE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 468 pages
...Conatus non poeniteat, votiqne peracti ? Evertere domos total, optantibus ipsi», Bi facile s. JUTKNAU Look round the habitable world : how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue t How void of reason are our hopes and fears t What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd,... | |
 | Rev. John Thornton - Ethics - 1811 - 106 pages
...strong reins, because it is har'd to be ruled, ea»y to be drawn aside, and apt to be deceived. 303. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. Dryden. 304. If you do not give to God your heart, he will accept nothing at your hands. 305. The pride... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pages
...thefe, it is not much matter what we want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. JLjQOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. Ver. 1. Look round] There is not perhaps in our language a poem of the moral and didactic fpecies,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 pages
...thefe, it is not much mat* ter what we want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. JX)OK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 346 pages
...1750. Fauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atyue illis muttum diversa, remota JErrorii nebula. jvv. -How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void o£ reason are our hopes and fears ? DRYDEN. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1811 - 562 pages
...timemus Aut cutimus ? Quid tarn dexlro pede amcipis, ut te Conutus non poeniteat, votlque peracli P* f How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the progress of our life appears So well design' d, so dext'rously begun, But, when we have «ur wish,... | |
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LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... 
