 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pàgines
...from youth to decrepitude without any reflection on the end of life. DR. S. JOHNSON. Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the , removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at... | |
 | Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - 1876 - 96 pàgines
...hesitation. But it must be remembered that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or of elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in removing little inconveniences, or in procuring petty pleasures. The manners of a people are not to... | |
 | Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - 1877 - 208 pàgines
...hesitation. But it must be remembered that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or of elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in removing little inconveniences, or in procuring petty pleasures. The manners of a people are not to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pàgines
...from youth to decrepitude without any reflection on the end of life. DR. S. JOHNSON. Life consists d beauty renfoval of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1881 - 360 pàgines
...«'•'• <>•" •'' 600064244Q MAEKIAGE " Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions ; the greater part of our time passes in compliance...— in the performance of daily duties — in the removal of small inconveniences — in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pàgines
...hesitation, and a little fear of abasement and contempt. But it must be remembered that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pàgines
...Barnet. Life went a-maying with nature, hope, and poesy, when I was young. — Coleridge. Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at... | |
 | Emerson Hough - 1900 - 394 pàgines
...only through the constant performance of small deeds. " For it must be remembered that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 pàgines
...hesitation and a little fear of abasement and contempt. But it must be remembered that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at... | |
 | 1864 - 614 pàgines
...of petty things over our lives. " Life," says the Doctor, " consists, not of a series of illustrious or elegant enjoyments : the greater part of our time...necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at... | |
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These diminutive observations seem to take away something from the dignity of writing, and therefore are never communicated but with hesitation, and a little fear of abasement and contempt. But it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series... 
