 ... the fatality (under which most men labour) of desiring to be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers...  The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq - Pàgina 304per Sir Richard Steele - 1786Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1712 - 398 pàgines
...they are not, makes "em go out of a Method, in which they might be receiver! with Applaufe, and \'j would certainly excel ; into one, wherein they will all their Life have the Air of Strangers to what they aim at. 1\ - For this Reafon, I have not lamented the Metamorphofts ot anyone... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1774 - 346 pàgines
...good fenfe, if they thought fit to ufe it: But the fatality (under which moft men labour) of defining to be what they are not, makes them go out of a method,...every thing elfe that might make him a man fit for liis order. But inftead of the purfuit of fober ftudies and applications, in which he would certainly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pàgines
...be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have, the air of strangers to what they aim at. For this reason, I have not lamented the meta* morphosis of any one... | |
 | 1803 - 410 pàgines
...be what they are not, makes them go out of a method, in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at. For this reason, I have not lamented the metamorphosis of any one I... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1809 - 382 pàgines
...not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainiy excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at. For this reason, I have not lamented the metamorphosis of any one I... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pàgines
...be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at. For this reason, I have not lamented the metamorphosis of any one I... | |
 | 1823 - 380 pàgines
...be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at. For this reason, I have not lamented the metamorphosis of any one I... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 372 pàgines
...be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one wherein they will all their life havetHe air of strangers to what they aim at. For this reason, I have not lamented themeta morphosis... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to whtt they aim at. — Steelc. DCCCCIV. ——What is Strength, without a double share... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pàgines
...be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at—Steele. DCCCCIV. Of Wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burthensome, Proudly secure,... | |
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