 Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest and most universal causes of all our disquiet and unhappiness. When ambition pulls one way, interest another, inclination a third,...  The Calendar for the Year ... - Page 300by Royal University of Ireland - 1859Full view - About this book
 | 1794 - 450 pages
...wisdom and virtue concur in directing and persuading a man to leave those >vitk whom he once acted. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...the inability ot enjoying his •wealth, have been the mark of satire in all ages. Ibid. N° 624.. When ambition pulls one way, interest another, inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill, who has so many different parties to please. Ibid. N°... | |
 | 1803 - 472 pages
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 466 pages
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...ambition pulls one way, interest another, inclination 9 third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. Irresolution on the schemes of life, which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks oi' infamy and derision. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...Irresolution on the schemes of life which met themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pu'j suing d by Hickman and Hazzard. William Brown, printer."# Addison Joseph" Joseph Addison( W hen ambition pulls one way, interest another, incliwtion a third, and perhaps reason contrary to... | |
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