 The causes of good and evil, answered Inilac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon...  the works of samuel johnson - Page 4681823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...neglect those that are obvious. Preface to Dictionary, fol. p. 8. CHOICE. The causes of good and evil are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that "he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die enquiring and deliberating. Prince of Abyflinia,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...directs us to take the least evil in the CHOICE OF .LIFE." "The causes of Good and evil," answered Imlae, "are so various and uncertain, so often entangled...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...US to take the least evil in the choice of life" " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon inContestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life." " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life.'1'' " The causes of good and evil, answered Imlac, are so various and uncertain, so often, entangled...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely, said... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life." " The causes of good and evil," answered. Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that he who. would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life" " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so' various and uncertain, so often entangled...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely" said... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life." " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely" said... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...have hitherto been the subject of this discourse..—— Spectator. 8. The causes of good and evil are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by various selations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen ; that he, who would fix his condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled wilh each other, so diversified by various relations, and...much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen, lhat he who would fix his condition upon, incontestable reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring... | |
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